A generalization of the cosine-sine functional equation on groups (Q1058075)

The authors present the general solution of the functional equation \[ f_ 1(xy)=f_ 1(x)f_ 2(y)+f_ 2(x)f_ 1(y)+f_ 3(x)f_ 3(y),\quad x,y\in G \] where \(f_ 1,f_ 2,f_ 3\) are functions from an arbitrary group G into a field K of characteristic different from two which is algebraically closed. The solutions are either of the form \(f_ i=a_{1i}E_ 1+a_{2i}E_ 2+a_{3i}E_ 3\) or \(f_ i=a_{1i}E_ 1+a_{2i}E+a_{3i}EA\) or \(f_ i=a_{1i}EA_ 1+a_{2i}E+a_{3i}EA+a_{4i}EA^ 2\), where the constants \(a_{ji}\) \((j=1,2,3,4\); \(i=1,2,3)\) satisfy some constraints where \(E,E_ i: G\to K\) or \(A,A_ 1: G\to K\) are arbitrary solutions of \(E(xy)=E(x)E(y)\) and \(A(xy)=A(x)+A(y)\), x,y\(\in G\), respectively.