Sunday, 22 December 2013

Proving that a function is additive in a functional equation

I have the equation
h(x,k(y,z))=f(y,g(y,x)+t(y,z)),
where




  • h,k,f,g,t are continuous real valued functions.


  • h,f are strictly monotone in their second argument.

  • all functions are "sensitive" to each of the arguments - in some natural sense (if x,y,z, are real numbers, just suppose that all functions are strictly monotone in each of their arguments).

  • x,y,z are from some "well behaved" topological space (connected, ...) - you can assume that they are from some real connected interval.



I want to show that g is additive, in the sense that: g(y,x)=gy(y)+gx(x) (and that h and f are strictly monotone transformations of an additive function).



The reason I think this is true is that in the right-hand side of (*), x is only "tied to" y not z, while on the left hand side it is "tied to" a function of both y and z.



More specifically, by (*) we have:




k(y,z)=h1(x,f(y,g(y,x)+t(y,z)))



(where h1 is the the inverse of h on the second argument, that is: h(a,h1(a,v))=v).



So, the right-hand side of (**) must be independent of x. Is there any option but that g is additive? I do not know how to go about attacking this. What theorems/tools are available?



Thanks,

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