Area-splitting centroids (Q762683)

A technique is presented for transforming certain functional differential equations into differential-difference equations. As an application, an area-splitting problem involving the centroid of a planar region is investigated. This problem leads to the equation \(a'(a(x))=(a(x)- a(a(x)))/(x-a(x)),\) which is dealt with by transforming it into the linear differential-difference equation \(\psi '(x)+\psi (x)=\psi (x+c)\).