Rota-Baxter operators on the polynomial algebras, integration and averaging operators

The concept of a Rota–Baxter operator is an algebraic abstraction of integration. Following this classical connection, we study the relationship between Rota–Baxter operators and integrals in the case of the polynomial algebra k[x]

k[x]

. We consider two classes of Rota–Baxter operators, monomial ones and injective ones. For the first class, we apply averaging operators to determine monomial Rota–Baxter operators. For the second class, we make use of the double product on Rota–Baxter algebras.