On a conjecture of de La Grandville and Solow concerning power means.
Our aim is to study continuous solutions φ of the classical linear iterative equation φ(f(x,y)) = g(x,y)φ(x,y) + h(x,y), where the given function f is defined as a pair of means. We are interested in the case when f has no fixed points. In turns out that in such a case continuous solutions of (1) depend on an arbitrary function.
The aim of this note is to characterize the real coefficients p₁,...,pₙ and q₁,...,qₖ so that be valid whenever the vectors x₁,...,xₙ, y₁,...,yₖ satisfy y₁,...,yₖ ⊆ convx₁,...,xₙ. Using this characterization, a class of generalized weighted quasi-arithmetic means is introduced and several open problems are formulated.
We consider iteration of arithmetic and power means and discuss methods for determining their limit. These means appear naturally in connection with some problems in homogenization theory.