On the Kurepa and inhomogeneous Cauchy functional equations

Abstract

It follows from de Bruijn's results that if a continuous or $k$-th order continuously differentiable function $F(x,y)$ is a solution of the Kurepa functional equation, then it can be expressed as $F(x,y)=f(x+y)-f(x)-f(y)$ with the continuous $f$ or the $k$-th order continuously differentiable $f$, respectively. These two facts strengthen the corresponding results of Kurepa and Erdös. In this paper, we provide new and constructive proofs for these facts. In addition to practically useful recipes given here for construction of $f$, we also estimate its modulus of continuity.

10 pages; this article uses material from arXiv:2006.08946