D’Alembert’s and Wilson’s functional equations on step 2 nilpotent groups

Summary. We describe the set of solutions of Wilsons functional equation on any step 2 nilpotent group and how the set of classical solutions in certain cases must be supplemented by 4-dimensional spaces of solutions.     

A note on Wilson’s functional equation

Let S be a semigroup, and \(\mathbb {F}\) a field of characteristic \(\ne 2\). If the pair \(f,g:S \rightarrow \mathbb {F}\) is a solution of Wilson’s \(\mu \)-functional equation such that \(f \ne 0\), then g satisfies d’Alembert’s \(\mu \)-functional equation.     

A generalization of d’Alembert formula

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

On an alternative d’Alembert’s equation

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Integral Van Vleck’s and Kannappan’s functional equations on semigroups

In this paper we study the solutions of the integral Van Vleck’s functional equation for the sine

$$\begin{aligned} \int _{S}f(x\tau (y)t)d\mu (t)-\int _{S}f(xyt)d\mu (t) =2f(x)f(y),\; x,y\in S \end{aligned}$$

and the integral Kannappan’s functional equation

$$\begin{aligned} \int _{S}f(xyt)d\mu (t)+\int _{S}f(x\tau (y)t)d\mu (t) =2f(x)f(y),\; x,y\in S, \end{aligned}$$

where S is a semigroup, \(\tau \) is an involution of S and \(\mu \) is a measure that is a linear combination of Dirac measures \((\delta _{z_{i}})_{i\in I}\), such that for all \(i\in I\), \(z_{i}\) is contained in the center of S. We express the solutions of the first equation by means of multiplicative functions on S, and we prove that the solutions of the second equation are closely related to the solutions of d’Alembert’s classic functional equation with involution.

     

Sincov’s and other functional equations and negative interest rates

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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.     

A d’Alembert Formula for Hopf Hypersurfaces

A Hopf hypersurface in complex hyperbolic space ${\mathbb{C}{\rm H}^n}$ is one for which the complex structure applied to the normal vector is a principal direction at each point. In this paper, Hopf hypersurfaces for which the corresponding principal curvature is small (relative to ambient curvature) are studied by means of a generalized Gauss map into a product of spheres, and it is shown that the hypersurface may be recovered from the image of this map, via an explicit parametrization.     

Some generalization of Cauchy’s and the quadratic functional equations

We find the solutions ${f,g,h \colon S \to H}$ of each of the functional equations $$\sum\limits_{\lambda \in \Lambda} f(x+\lambda y)=|\Lambda| g(x)+h(y),\quad x,y\in S,$$ where (S,?+) is an abelian semigroup, Λ is a finite subgroup of the automorphism group of S,?(H,?+) is an abelian group.     

To Favard’s theory for functional equations

We obtain some conditions for existence of almost periodic solutions for almost periodic functional equations in a Banach space which do not use the H-classes of these equations.