Well the expression for the $\frac {d^n}{dt^n} p(t) $ is $V_n(t) p(t)$, where $V_n(t)$ is a polynomial of degree $n$, and $V_n(t)$ may be determined recursivelyy $$ V_{n+1}(t)e^{-t^2/(2\tau^2)} = \frac{d}{dt}\left(V_{n}(t)e^{-t^2/(2\tau^2)}\right) $$ Solving for $V_{n+2}(t)$ we have $$ V_{n+1} = \frac{d}{dt} V_{n}(t) - \frac{t}{2\tau^2} V_n(t)$$ In order to link the two forms of the equation we need $$\begin{eqnarray} g(t) &=& p(t)cos(2\pi f_{c}t) \\ &=& V_{TX}exp(-\frac{t^{2}}{2\tau^2})cos(2\pi f_{c}t) \\ &=& \frac{d^{n}}{dt^{n}} \left( V_{TX }exp(-\frac{t^{2}}{2\tau^2}) \right) \\ &=& p(t)V_n(t) \end{eqnarray}$$ Thus $cos(2\pi f_c t) = V_n(t)$, the right hand side is a polynomial. As $n \to \infty$, the are the Hermite polynomials have some [asymptotic expansions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermite_polynomials#Asymptotic_expansion) in terms of cossines. So the two may assume approximate values for certain values of $f_c$ and $\tau$. Numerically evaluating the derivaties we see some resemblance with gausiand windowed cosine. ``` function hermite; tau=pi; t = tau * linspace(-5, 5, 1000); for order = 4:2:20 subplot(3,3,order/2-1) a = -1/(2*tau^2); P = V_coefs(order, a); plot(t, polyval(P(end:-1:1), t).*exp(a*t.^2)); title(num2str(order, 'n=%d')) end end function coefs = V_coefs(order, a) coefs = 1; for ii = 1:order coefs = [(1:(ii-1)).*coefs(2:end), 0, 0] + [0, coefs .* (2 * a)]; end end ``` [![hermite plots][1]][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/uqHwV.png