The law of large numbers and a functional equation

Maciej Sablik

Annales Polonici Mathematici (1998)

  • Volume: 68, Issue: 2, page 165-175
  • ISSN: 0066-2216

Abstract

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We deal with the linear functional equation (E) g ( x ) = i = 1 r p i g ( c i x ) , where g:(0,∞) → (0,∞) is unknown, ( p , . . . , p r ) is a probability distribution, and c i ’s are positive numbers. The equation (or some equivalent forms) was considered earlier under different assumptions (cf. [1], [2], [4], [5] and [6]). Using Bernoulli’s Law of Large Numbers we prove that g has to be constant provided it has a limit at one end of the domain and is bounded at the other end.

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Maciej Sablik. "The law of large numbers and a functional equation." Annales Polonici Mathematici 68.2 (1998): 165-175. <http://eudml.org/doc/270172>.

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References

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