Stabilities of cubic mappings in various normed spaces: direct and fixed point methods (Q411014)

Summary: In 1940 (and 1964), \textit{S. M. Ulam} [A collection of mathematical problems. (Interscience Tracts in Pure and Applied Mathematics. No. 8.) New York and London: Interscience Publishers (1960; Zbl 0086.24101)] proposed the general problem: ``When is it true that by changing a little the hypotheses of a theorem one can still assert that the thesis of the theorem remains true or approximately true?''. In 1941, \textit{D. H. Hyers} [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 27, 222--224 (1941; Zbl 0061.26403; JFM 67.0424.01)] solved this stability problem for linear mappings. According to \textit{P. M. Gruber} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 245, 263--277 (1978; Zbl 0393.41020)], this kind of stability problems are of the particular interest in probability theory and in the case of functional equations of different types. In 1981, Skof was the first author to solve the Ulam problem for quadratic mappings. In 1982-2011, J. M. Rassias solved the above Ulam problem for linear and nonlinear mappings and established analogous stability problems even on restricted domains. The purpose of this paper is the generalized Hyers-Ulam stability for the following cubic functional equation: \(f(mx + y) + f(mx - y) = mf(x + y) + mf(x - y) + 2(m^3 - m)f(x), m \geq 2\) in various normed spaces.