Jensen's functional equation on the symmetric group S_n

Abstract: Two natural extensions of Jensen's functional equation on the real line are the equations

f (x y) + f (x y^{- 1}) = 2 f (x)

and

f (x y) + f (y^{- 1} x) = 2 f (x)

, where

f

is a map from a multiplicative group

G

into an abelian additive group

H

. In a series of papers cite{Ng1}, cite{Ng2}, cite{Ng3}, C. T. Ng has solved these functional equations for the case where

G

is a free group and the linear group

G L_{n} (R)

,

R = z,

, a quadratically closed field or a finite field. He has also mentioned, without detailed proof, in the above papers and in cite{Ng4} that when

G

is the symmetric group

S_{n}

the group of all solutions of these functional equations coincides with the group of all homomorphisms from

(S_{n}, c d o t)

to

(H, +)

. The aim of this paper is to give an elementary and direct proof of this fact.

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