Hyers-Ulam stability of Butler-Rassias functional equation (Q2569959)

\textit{M.Th. Rassias} [Solution of a functional equation problem of Steven Butler, Octogon Math. Mag. 12, no. 1, 152--153 (2004)] proved that if \(d<-1\) is a constant and \(f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}\) satisfies the so-called Butler--Rassias functional equation \[ f(x+y)-f(x)f(y) = d\sin x\sin y, \] for all \(x,y \in \mathbb{R}\), then it has one of the forms \(f(x)=c\sin x+\cos x\) or \(f(x)=-c\sin x+\cos x\), where \(c = \sqrt{-d-1}\). The author of the present paper, by using an idea of the above paper, establishes the Hyers--Ulam stability of Butler--Rassias functional equation. More precisely, he shows that there is a constant \(K = K(d)\geq 0\) such that if \(0 < \varepsilon < | d| \) and \(f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}\) satisfies \[ | f(x+y)-f(x)f(y)-d\sin x\sin y| \leq \varepsilon, \] for all \(x,y \in \mathbb{R}\), then \[ | f(x)-f_0(x)| \leq K(\varepsilon + \sqrt{\varepsilon}), \] holds for some solution function \(f_0\) of the Butler--Rassias equation and for all \( x \in \mathbb{R}\).