Solutions of a functional equation in a special class of functions
The functional equation is solved for general solution. The result is then applied to show that the three functional equations , and are equivalent. Finally, twice differentiable solution functions of the functional equation are determined.
Let ϕ be an arbitrary bijection of . We prove that if the two-place function is subadditive in then must be a convex homeomorphism of . This is a partial converse of Mulholland’s inequality. Some new properties of subadditive bijections of are also given. We apply the above results to obtain several converses of Minkowski’s inequality.
A functional characterization of Sugeno's negations is presented and as a consequence, we study a family of non strict Archimedean t-norms whose (vertical-horizontal) sections are straight lines.