The functional equations of Frank and Alsina for uninorms and nullnorms (Q5939640)

Motivated by some questions arising in fuzzy preference modelling, the authors consider some generalizations of Frank's functional equation: \[ T(x,y) + S(x,y) = x+ y \tag{1} \] and Alsina's functional equation \[ S(T(x,y), T(x,N(y)) = x . \tag{2} \] Equations (1) and (2) were solved initially in the case that \(T\) is a continuous t-norm, \(S\) is a continuous t-conorm, \(N\) is a strong negation and \(x,y\) run in [0,1]. The chief concern in this paper is to study (1) and (2) for more general classes of binary operations, the so-called uninorms and nullnorms. It is interesting that the solution found led back to the already known solutions for the case of t-norms and t-conorms.