d’Alembert’s functional equation on groups

d’Alembert’s functional equation on groups
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by R. C. Penney and A. L. Rukhin PDF

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1979), 73-80 Request permission

Group representation theory is used to solve a functional equation of the D’Alembert type on groups.

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