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Many articles have been written about functional equations characterizing derivations on integral domains (or sometimes commutative rings) of characteristic 0. Here we synthesize several recent results by various authors and extend them by showing that they hold more generally on commutative rings of sufficiently large finite characteristic.
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Ebanks, B. Functional Equations Characterizing Derivations: A Synthesis. Results Math 73, 120 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-018-0881-y
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