Affiliation: | Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Mathematik, AG4, Schloß{}gartenstraß{}e 7, D-64289, Darmstadt, Germany ; Department of Analysis, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary ; Department of Analysis, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary ; A. Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, P.O.B.~127, 1364 Hungary |
Abstract: | Consider arbitrary elements. We characterize those functions that decompose into the sum of -periodic functions, i.e., with . We show that has such a decomposition if and only if for all partitions with consisting of commensurable elements with least common multiples one has . Actually, we prove a more general result for periodic decompositions of functions defined on an Abelian group ; in fact, we even consider invariant decompositions of functions with respect to commuting, invertible self-mappings of some abstract set . We also extend our results to functions between torsion free Abelian groups. As a corollary we also obtain that on a torsion free Abelian group the existence of a real-valued periodic decomposition of an integer-valued function implies the existence of an integer-valued periodic decomposition with the same periods. |