A regularity theorem for composite functional equations

DOI10.1007/PL00000498MaRDI QIDQ5955997zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Attila Gilányi, Zsolt Páles

Publication date 10 September 2002

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00000498

zbMATH Keywords

convexitydifferentiabilityfunctional equationsmonotonicity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentiation (real functions of one variable): general theory, generalized derivatives, mean value theorems (26A24) Monotonic functions, generalizations (26A48) Convexity of real functions in one variable, generalizations (26A51) Functional equations for real functions (39B22)

Review text

The functional equation \(f(x+y)-f(x)=f[g(x+y)-g(x)]\) was derived from a more intricate equation arising in utility theory, that has been solved by \textit{J. Aczél, R. D. Luce} and \textit{Gy. Maksa} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 204, No. 2, 451-471 (1996; Zbl 0870.90019)] under differentiability assumptions. In 1998 Zs. Páles found a method to solve the above equation under more natural strict monotonicity and surjectivity conditions [cf. \textit{J. Aczél, Gy. Maksa} and \textit{Zs. Páles}, ibid. 233, No. 2, 740-748 (1999; Zbl 1033.39020)], by proving first the convexity of \(f\) and \(g.\) While the method first looked specific to that equation, Páles soon found other applications. In the present paper it is successfully applied to general equations of the type \[ f(x+y)-f(x)+\sum_{j=1}^n h_j[g_j(y+z_j)-g_j(y)] \] \[ =\sum_{j=1}^n k_j[g_j(y+x+z_j)-g_j(y+x)-g_j(y+z_j)+g_j(y)] \] (\(x,y,z_j>0)\): roughly speaking the strict monotonicity of \(g_j, h_j, k_j\) implies the differentiability of \(f, h_j, k_j.\)

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