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ON THE REAL-VALUED GENERAL SOLUTIONS OF THE D’ALEMBERT EQUATION WITH INVOLUTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2016

JAEYOUNG CHUNG*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Kunsan National University, Gunsan 54150, Republic of Korea email jychung@kunsan.ac.kr
CHANG-KWON CHOI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea email ck38@jbnu.ac.kr
SOON-YEONG CHUNG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea email sychung@ccs.sogang.ac.kr
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Abstract

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We find all real-valued general solutions $f:S\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of the d’Alembert functional equation with involution

$$\begin{eqnarray}\displaystyle f(x+y)+f(x+\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}y)=2f(x)f(y) & & \displaystyle \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$$
for all $x,y\in S$, where $S$ is a commutative semigroup and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}~:~S\rightarrow S$ is an involution. Also, we find the Lebesgue measurable solutions $f:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of the above functional equation, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}$ is a Lebesgue measurable involution. As a direct consequence, we obtain the Lebesgue measurable solutions $f:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of the classical d’Alembert functional equation
$$\begin{eqnarray}\displaystyle f(x+y)+f(x-y)=2f(x)f(y) & & \displaystyle \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$$
for all $x,y\in \mathbb{R}^{n}$. We also exhibit the locally bounded solutions $f:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of the above equations.

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Research Article
Copyright
© 2016 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

The first author was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (no. 2015R1D1A3A01019573). The third author was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (no. NRF-2015R1D1A1A01059561).

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