Szabó Sándor (BME): Characterization of polynomials
Abstract:
In 1954 it was proved that if f is infinitely differentiable in the
interval I and some
derivative (of order depending on x) vanishes at each x, then f is a
polynomial. Later it
was generalized for multivariable case. A further extension for
distributions is possible.
Our result implies the polynomial cases also.