Friday, November 11, 2011

A function returning to "itself" after p differentiations, and no fewer?

If w is a primitive nth root of 1, for example w = cos(2pi/n) + i*sin(2pi/n), then the function f(x) = e^(wx) satisfies the equation D^n(f) = f. This is not a real-valued function, but the real part of this function satisfies the same equation.

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