Zdeněk Mihula

Higher-order derivatives of radially symmetric functions

We prove a surprisingly simple pointwise formula for the Frobenius norm of the tensor of $n$-th order partial derivatives of a radially symmetric function $f(x)=g(r(x))$. Using the iterations of the differential operator $\mathcal{D} g(r)=g'(r)/r$, we avoid technical difficulties usually caused by higher-order radial d...