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Taylor Formula and displacement operator: I (too often) see in papers (mathematical physics but a recent papers by mathematicians also) the statement

Let $D=\frac{d}{dx}$ be the derivation operator. Then, for all $f\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R})$, $$ e^{tD}[f](x)=f(x+t) $$

which is false (take any $\phi\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R})$ with compact support, for instance).