Cauchy’s Functional Equation, Schur’s Lemma, One-Dimensional Special Relativity, and Möbius’s Functional Equation

Teerapong Suksumran ()
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Teerapong Suksumran: Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University

A chapter in Modern Discrete Mathematics and Analysis, 2018, pp 389-396 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This article explores a remarkable connection between Cauchy’s functional equation, Schur’s lemma in representation theory, the one-dimensional relativistic velocities in special relativity, and Möbius’s functional equation. Möbius’s exponential equation is a functional equation defined by f ( a ⊕ M b ) = f ( a ) f ( b ) , $$\displaystyle f(a\oplus _M b) = f(a)f(b), $$ where ⊕M is Möbius addition given by a ⊕ M b = a + b 1 + ā b $$a\oplus _M b = \dfrac {a+b}{1+\bar {a}b}$$ for all complex numbers a and b of modulus less than one, and the product f(a)f(b) is taken in the field of complex numbers. We indicate that, in some sense, Möbius’s exponential equation is an extension of Cauchy’s exponential equation. We also exhibit a one-to-one correspondence between the irreducible linear representations of an abelian group on a complex vector space and the solutions of Cauchy’s exponential equation and extend this to the case of Möbius’s exponential equation. We then give the complete family of Borel measurable solutions to Cauchy’s exponential equation with domain as the group of one-dimensional relativistic velocities under the restriction of Möbius addition.

Keywords: Irreducible Linear Representations; Exponential Equation; Complex Vector Space; Borel Measure; Remarkable Connection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74325-7_20

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