In any finite-dimensional Euclidean space, this extension is a smooth function and all its partial derivatives at the origin vanish. Away from zero, repeated differentiation gives finite sums of coordinate polynomials divided by powers of , multiplied by . Every such term is bounded in absolute value by near zero. Since Gaussian decay dominates every power, this bound tends to zero faster than any prescribed positive power of . Induction using difference quotients then proves smoothness and zero derivatives of every order at zero.
The origin is nevertheless a strict global minimum, because for . All its Taylor series coefficients vanish, so the function is not real analytic at zero. Adding a constant preserves the stationary minimum but changes the zeroth-order value. An expression written only for has no stationary point at the excluded origin until an extension is specified.
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