Monday, 28 September 2015

A logarithm-like functional equation



Suppose we are given that a monotonically decreasing smooth function f on (0,) obeys the functional equation f(x)=f(1x), and satisfies f(13)=12 and f(12)=13. Furthermore, limx0f(x)=1. Is there a way to infer information about the function from these data alone, or even classify all functions satisfying them? I see that a function proportional to logx satisfies the functional equation, but cannot satisfy the special values.



I now found a function satisfying these data: f(x)=1x1+x.


Answer



The following Mobius function has the desired properties you want:




f(x):=1x1+x



f(0)=1,f(x)=f(1x),f(13)=12,f(12)=13



EDIT:



I did not pay attention to the modification of the original question that added the right answer while I was typing my answer to the original question above.



Here I post a general method to deal with such problem by providing a new function g(x) which satisfies the desired the requirements.




Define
g(x):=a(xx1)+b(xx1)3+c(xx1)5ux5+vx5



Then



g(x)+g(x1)=0 requires that u=v

.



limx0g(x)=cv=1 requires that v=c



limxg(x)=cv=1 requires that v=c




We can then solve
g(1/3)=12 and g(1/2)=13


for a and b and obtain:



a=2683504c and b=6142c (c0)


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