The following apparently elementary question came out of a somewhat naive attempt to
prove that every distribution $u\in \mathscr D'(\mathbb R^2)$ with $\partial\_1 u=\partial\_2 u =0$ is a constant function (this can be reduced to $\mathscr C^1$-functions by convolution with an approximate identity and for $\mathscr C^1$-functions it is completely elementary). 

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The only necessary condition I see is $\int \varphi(x,y) d(x,y)=0$, and the conjecture is that this is sufficient.

However, all my ad hoc attempts failed.
On the side of Fourier transforms one would have to write $\hat{\varphi}(\xi,\eta) = \xi h(\xi,\eta) + \eta k(\xi,\eta)$ which is easy with smooth $h$ and $k$ (using $\hat{\varphi}(0)=0$) but I do not see how to do this with entire $h$ and $k$ satisfying
the Paley-Wiener conditions for $\hat{\mathscr D}$.

(If the conjecture is true one gets a solution of the above mentioned problem since then the kernel of $v(\varphi)=\int \varphi(x,y) d(x,y)$ is contained in the kernel of $u$ and therefore $u$ is a multiple of $v$.)