Solving Chisini's functional equation

DOI10.1007/S00010-010-0018-1MaRDI QIDQ623394zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Luc Marichal

Publication date 14 February 2011

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1546

zbMATH Keywords

Chisini meanChisini's functional equationidempotencylevel surface meanquasi-idempotencyquasi-inverse functionShepard's metric interpolation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuity and differentiation questions (26B05) Special properties of functions of several variables, Hölder conditions, etc. (26B35) Means (26E60) Iteration theory, iterative and composite equations (39B12) Functional equations for real functions (39B22)

Abstract: We investigate the n-variable real functions G that are solutions of the Chisini functional equation F(x)=F(G(x),...,G(x)), where F is a given function of n real variables. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions on F for the existence and uniqueness of solutions. When F is nondecreasing in each variable, we show in a constructive way that if a solution exists then a nondecreasing and idempotent solution always exists. We also provide necessary and sufficient conditions on F for the existence of continuous solutions and we show how to construct such a solution. We finally discuss a few applications of these results.

Review text

The authors consider Chisini's functional equation in its full generality. They investigated the \(n\)-variable real functions \textsf{G} that are solutions of the Chisini's functional equation \(\mathsf{F}(\text\textsf{x})= \text\textsf{F}(\text\textsf{G}(\text\textsf{x}),\dots, \text\textsf{G}(\text\textsf{x}))\), where \text\textsf{F} is a given function of \(n\) real variables. They established necessary and sufficient conditions on \textsf{F} for the existence and uniqueness of solutions. When \textsf{F} is nondecreasing in each variable, they also show in a constructive way that if a solution exists then a nondecreasing and idempotent solution always exists. Necessary and sufficient conditions on \textsf{F} for the existence of continuous solutions are established. Finally, they discuss a few applications of the obtained results. This paper shows further views on solutions of functional equations.

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