On multiplicative and additive differences

DOI10.1007/S00010-004-2760-8MaRDI QIDQ1774143zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors László Székelyhidi, Bruce Ebanks

Publication date 29 April 2005

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-004-2760-8

additive differences functional equations generalized logarithmic polynomial generalized polynomial multiplicative differences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations for real functions (39B22) Orthogonal additivity and other conditional functional equations (39B55)

Review text

The authors deal with the characterization of functions which can be expressed as a sum of a generalized polynomial and a generalized logarithmic polynomial. The simplest case of generalized polynomials and generalized logarithmic polynomials of the first degree is to characterize those functions which are sums of affine and logarithmic functions. This problem was solved by \textit{Z. Daróczy, K. Lajkó} and \textit{L. Székelyhidi} [Publ. Math. Debrecen 24, 173--179 (1977; Zbl 0372.39004)]. The main result is the following characterization theorem: A function \(f: R \to R\) is the sum of a generalized polynomial of degree at most \(n\) and of a generalized logarithmic polynomial of degree at most \(m\) if and only if all of its \(m\)-th multiplicative differences are generalized polynomials of degree at most \(n\).

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