The Gołąb-Schinzel equation and its generalizations (Q2567988)

This is a short but very informative survey on the functional equation \(f[x+f(x)y]=f(x)f(y)\) that has applications to geometric objects, associative operations, subgroups of the centroaffine group, subsemigroups of the semigroup of affine mappings, subgroups of \(L^1_2,\) classification of quasialgebras and of near-rings, differential equations in meteorology and fluid mechanics, etc. Originally \(\mathbb{R}^2\) was taken as its domain but some applications restricted it to \([0,\infty[^2\) or even further, others required more general structures. The equation had intrinsic interest even on \(\mathbb{R}^2\) because, different from Cauchy's and similar equations, it has continuous solutions that are not differentiable, bounded solutions that are not continuous, etc. The survey reports also on generalizations, like \(f[x+f(x)^k y]=cf(x)f(y).\) It concludes with an 82-item bibliography