Continuous on rays solutions of an equation of the Gołąb-Schinzel type (Q616705)

The author presents the solutions \(f,g : X\to\mathbb R\) of the functional equation \[ f(x+g(x)y)=f(x)f(y), \] which are continuous on rays of a real linear space \(X\). The introduction gives a brief and therefore necessarily incomplete history of this \textit{S. Gołąb} and \textit{A. Schinzel} equation [Publ. Math., Debrecen 6, 113--125 (1959; Zbl 0083.35004)] and its applications. For a more complete survey see [\textit{J. Brzdȩk}, Aequationes Math. 70, No.~1--2, 14--24 (2005; Zbl 1078.39021)].