Behaviour of an Exponential Commutation

[d.hatch75]

Homework Statement

Forgive the awkward title, it was hard to think how to describe the problem in such a short space. I'm following the proof of Proposition 1.2 of Nakahara's "Geometry, Topology and Physics", and the following commutation relation has been established:

\partial_x^n e^{ikx} = e^{ikx}(ik + \partial_x )^n

The line immediately afterwards is:

e^{-i\epsilon \{-\partial_x^2 / 2m + V(x)\}}e^{ikx} = e^{ikx}e^{-i\epsilon \{-(ik+\partial_x )^2 / 2m + V(x)\}}

I am not seeing how this follows from the previous relation, since the partial derivative is in the exponential so surely it doesn't act on e^{ikx} in the same way? It seems dodgy, but I can only assume I'm missing some important result concerning exponentials of commutation relationships that hasn't otherwise been specified anywhere in the book as far as I can tell.

Homework Equations

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The Attempt at a Solution

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[BruceW]

hint: try using the power series expansion of an exponential function.