{ "id": "1307.0633", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-07-02T09:07:15.000Z", "updated": "2013-07-02T09:07:15.000Z", "title": "Notes on the characterization of derivations", "authors": [ "Eszter Gselmann" ], "comment": "6 pages; Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum (Szeged) 2012", "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "Although the characterization of ring derivations has an extensive literature, up to now, all of the characterizations have had the following form: additivity and another property imply that the function in question is a derivation. The aim of this note is to point out that derivations can be described via a single equation.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-07-02T09:07:15.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "39B50", "13N15" ], "keywords": [ "characterization", "single equation", "additivity", "ring derivations" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1307.0633G" } } }