On the Hyers-Ulam stability of quadratic functional equations.
We consider the problem of the vanishing of non-negative continuous solutions ψ of the functional inequalities (1) ψ(f(x)) ≤ β(x,ψ(x)) and (2) α(x,ψ(x)) ≤ ψ(f(x)) ≤ β(x,ψ(x)), where x varies in a fixed real interval I. As a consequence we obtain some results on the uniqueness of continuous solutions φ :I → Y of the equation (3) φ(f(x)) = g(x,φ(x)), where Y denotes an arbitrary metric space.
The paper contains sufficient conditions under which all solutions of linear functional equations of the higher order are oscillatory.
K. Nikodem and the present author proved in [3] a theorem concerning separation by affine functions. Our purpose is to generalize that result for polynomials. As a consequence we obtain two theorems on separation of an n-convex function from an n-concave function by a polynomial of degree at most n and a stability result of Hyers-Ulam type for polynomials.
We prove here that the Poincaré-Sobolev pointwise inequalities for the relative rearrangement can be considered as the root of a great number of inequalities in various sets not necessarily vector spaces. In particular, new interpolation inequalities can be derived.