Convex solutions to polynomial-like iterative equations on open intervals (Q623396)

The first part of this article deals with nondecreasing convex solutions to the polynomial-like iterative functional equation \[ \lambda_1f(x) + \lambda_2f^2(x) + \dots +\lambda_n f^n(x) = F(x),\tag{1} \] (\(f(\cdot):\;S \to S\) (\(S \subset {\mathbb R}\)), \(f^0(x) = x\), \(f^j(x) = f(f^{j-1}(x))\)). Under assumptions \(\lambda_1 > 0\) \(\lambda_2, \dots, \lambda_n \leq 0\) and the existence of continuous nondecreasing convex functions \(g,h \in S\) satisfying inequalities \[ \lambda_1g(x) + \lambda_2g^2(x) + \dots + \lambda_n g^n(x) \leq F(x), \] \[ \lambda_1h(x) + \lambda_2h^2(x) + \dots +\lambda_n h^n(x) \geq F(x), \] there exists at least one continuous nondecreasing convex solution \(f(x)\) such that \(g(x) \leq f(x) \leq h(x)\). The second part of the article presents the analoguous result for \(p\)-convex (\(p \geq -1\)) solutions of (1) (a function \(f:\;S \to {\mathbb R}\) is called convex of order \(p\) or \(p\)-convex, if \[ [x_0,x_1,\dots,x_{p+1};f] \geq 0, \qquad x_0 < x_1 < \dots < x_{p+1} \in S, \] (\([x_0,x_1,\dots,x_{p+1};f]\) denotes the divided difference of \(f\) at the points \(x_0,x_1,\dots,x_{p+1}\)).