On an alternative d’Alembert’s equation

Aequationes mathematicae - Roger Cuculière [Problem 11998, The American Mathematical Monthly 124 no. 7 (2017)] has posed the following problem: Find all continuous functions $$f: mathbb R...     

On the stability of Hosszú’s functional equation

Two stability results are proved. The first one states that Hosszú’s functional equation $$f(x+y-xy)+f(xy)=f(x)-f(y)=0\ \ \ \ \ (x,y \in \rm R)$$ is stable. The second is a local stability theorem for additive functions in a Banach space setting.     

A link between Wilson’s and d’Alembert’s functional equations

If \({f, g : G \to \mathbb{C}}\), f ≠ 0, is a solution of Wilson’s functional equation on a group G, then g is a d’Alembert function.     

Reduction of the multidimensional d’Alembert equation to two-dimensional equations

We give a classification of maximal subalgebras of rankn−1 for the extended Poincaré algebra , which is realized on the set of solutions of the d'Alembert equation . These subalgebras are used for constructing anzatses that reduce this equation to differential equations with two invariant variables. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 651–662, June, 1994.     

Solving Chisini’s functional equation

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.     

Hyers–Ulam stability of Euler’s equation

We prove that Euler’s equation $x_1\frac{?u}{?x_1}+x_2\frac{?u}{?x_2}+?+x_n\frac{?u}{?x_n}=\alpha u$, characterising homogeneous functions, is stable in Hyers–Ulam sense if and only if $\alpha \in \mathbb{R}?\left\{0\right\}$.     

A generalization of d’Alembert formula

In this paper we find a closed form of the solution for the factored inhomogeneous linear equation