On a functional equation arising from number theory

DOI10.1016/J.AML.2010.10.020MaRDI QIDQ619840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Esteban A. Chávez, Prasanna Sahoo

Publication date 18 January 2011

Published in Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aml.2010.10.020

zbMATH Keywords

abelian group commutative semigroup functional equation multiplicative function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional equations for functions with more general domains and/or ranges (39B52)

Review text

Let \(H\) be a commutative semigroup, \(K\) be an abelian group and \({\mathbb F}\) be a field. Let \(\phi:{\mathbb F}^4\to{\mathbb F}^2\) be a function such that there exists a bijective function \(\alpha:{\mathbb F}^2\to H^2\) satisfying \[ \alpha(\phi(x,y,u,v))=\alpha(x,y)\alpha(u,v). \] The authors prove that the general solution \(f:{\mathbb F}^2\to K\) of the functional equation \[ f(\phi(x,y,u,v))=f(x,y)f(u,v) \] is given by \[ f(x,y)=M_1(\alpha_1(x,y))M_2(\alpha_2(x,y)), \] where \(M_1,M_2:H\to K\) are semigroup morphisms, and \(\alpha_1,\alpha_2\) are coordinate functions of \(\alpha:{\mathbb F}^2\to H^2\).

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