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On the stability of pexider functional equation in non-archimedean spaces

Abstract

In this paper, the Hyers-Ulam stability of the Pexider functional equation

in a non-Archimedean space is investigated, where σ is an involution in the domain of the given mapping f.

MSC 2010:26E30, 39B52, 39B72, 46S10

1.Introduction

The stability problem for functional equations first was planed in 1940 by Ulam [1]:

Let G1 be group and G2 be a metric group with the metric d(·,·). Does, for any ε > 0, there exists δ > 0 such that, for any mapping f : G1G2 which satisfies d(f(xy), f(x)f(y)) ≤ δ for all x, y G1, there exists a homomorphism h : G1G2 so that, for any x G1, we have d(f (x), h(x)) ≤ ε?

In 1941, Hyers [2] answered to the Ulam's question when G1 and G2 are Banach spaces. Subsequently, the result of Hyers was generalized by Aoki [3] for additive mappings and Rassias [4] for linear mappings by considering an unbounded Cauchy difference. The paper of Rassias [4] has provided a lot of influences in the development of the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of functional equations (for more details, see [5] where a discussion on definitions of the Hyers-Ulam stability is provided by Moszner, also [612]).

In this paper, we give a modification of the approach of Belaid et al. [13] in non-Archimedean spaces. Recently, Ciepliński [14] studied and proved stability of multi-additive mappings in non-Archimedean normed spaces, also see [1522].

Definition 1.1. The function | · | : K is called a non-Archimedean valuation or absolute value over the field K if it satisfies following conditions: for any a, b K,

  1. (1)

    |a| ≥ 0;

  2. (2)

    |a| = 0 if and only if a = 0;

  3. (3)

    |ab| = |a| |b|

  4. (4)

    |a + b| ≤ max{|a|, |b|};

  5. (5)

    there exists a member a 0 K such that |a 0| ≠ 0, 1.

A field K with a non-Archimedean valuation is called a non-Archimedean field.

Corollary 1.2. |-1| = |1| = 1 and so, for any a K, we have |-a| = |a|. Also, if |a| < |b| for any a, b K, then |a + b| = |b|.

In a non-Archimedean field, the triangle inequality is satisfied and so a metric is defined. But an interesting inequality changes the usual Archimedean sense of the absolute value. For any n , we have |n · 1| ≤ . Thus, for any a K, n and nonzero divisor k of n, the following inequalities hold:

(1.1)

Definition 1.3. Let V be a vector space over a non-Archimedean field K. A non-Archimedean norm over V is a function || · || : V → R satisfying the following conditions: for any α K and u, v V,

  1. (1)

    ||u|| = 0 if and only if u = 0;

  2. (2)

    ||αu|| = |α| ||u||;

  3. (3)

    ||u + v|| ≤ max{||u||, ||v||}.

Since 0 = ||0|| = ||v - v|| ≤ max{||v||, ||-v||} = ||v|| for any v V, we have ||v|| ≥ 0. Any vector space V with a non-Archimedean norm || · || : V is called a non-Archimedean space. If the metric d(u, v) = ||u - v|| is induced by a non-Archimedean norm || · || : V on a vector space V which is complete, then (V, || · ||) is called a complete non-Archimedean space.

Proposition 1.4. ([23]) A sequencein a non-Archimedean space is a Cauchy sequence if and only if the sequenceconverges to zero.

Since any non-Archimedean norm satisfies the triangle inequality, any non-Archimedean norm is a continuous function from its domain to real numbers.

Proposition 1.5. Let V be a normed space and E be a non-Archimedean space. Let f : VE be a function, continuous at 0 V such that, for any × V, f(2x) = 2f(x) (for example, additive functions). Then, f = 0.

Proof. Since f(0) = 0, for any ε > 0, there exists δ > 0 that, for any x V with ||x|| ≤ δ,

and, for any x V, there exists n that and hence

Since this inequality holds for all ε > 0, it follows that, for any x V, f(x) = 0. This completes the proof.

The preceding fact is a special case of a general result for non-Archimedean spaces, that is, every continuous function from a connected space to a non-Archimedean space is constant. This is a consequence of totally disconnectedness of every non-Archimedean space (see [23]).

2. Stability of quadratic and Cauchy functional equations

Throughout this section, we assume that V1 is a normed space and V2 is a complete non-Archimedean space. Let σ : V1V1 be a continuous involution (i.e., σ (x + y) = σ (x) + σ (y) and σ (σ (x)) = x) and φ : V1 × V1 be a function with

(2.1)

and define a function ϕ : V1 × V1 by

(2.2)

which easily implies

(2.3)

Theorem 2.1. Suppose that φ satisfies the condition 2.1 and let ϕ is defined by Equation 2.2. If f : V1V2satisfies the inequality

(2.4)

for all x, y V1, then there exists a unique solution q : V1V2of the functional equation

(2.5)

such that

(2.6)

for all x V1.

Proof. Replacing x and y in Equation 2.4 with and , respectively, we obtain

(2.7)

Replacing x and y in Equation 2.4 with and , respectively, we obtain

(2.8)

Also, replacing both of x, y in Equation 2.4 with , we get

and so, for any n , we get

(2.9)

Similarly, replacing both of x, y in Equation 2.4 with , we get

(2.10)

Replacing x in Equation 2.7 with , we obtain

for all x V1 and so, by assumption Equation 2.1,

Thus, f(0) = 0 and the inequality Equation 2.10 reduces to

and so,

(2.11)

For any n , define

and

Then,

(2.12)

for all x, y V1.

From Equations (2.9) and (2.11), we get

and so Proposition 1.4 and the hypothesis Equation 2.1 imply that is a Cauchy sequence. Since V2 is complete, the sequence converges to a point of V2 which defines a mapping q : V1V2.

Now, we prove

(2.13)

for all n . Since Equation 2.7 implies

Assume that ||f(x) -q n (x)|| ≤ ϕ n (x, x) holds for some n . Then, we have

Therefore, by induction on n, Equation 2.13 follows from Equation 2.12. Taking the limit of both sides of Equation 2.13, we prove that q satisfies Equation 2.6.

For any n and x, y V1, we have

and so, by the continuity of non-Archimedean norm and taking the limit of both sides of the above inequality, we get

Thus, q is a solution of the Equation 2.5 which satisfies Equation 2.6.

Then, by replacing x, y with in Equation 2.5, we obtain the following identities: for any solution g : V1V2 of the Equation (2.5),

and

(2.14)

By induction on n, one can show that

(2.15)

and

(2.16)

for all n .

Now, suppose that q' : V1V2 is another solution of 2.5 that satisfies the Equation 2.6. It follows from Equations 2.14 to 2.16 that

Therefore, since

we have q(x) = q'(x) for all x V1. This completes the proof.

In the proof of the next theorem, we need a result concerning the Cauchy functional equation

(2.17)

which has been established in [20].

Theorem 2.2. ([20]) Suppose that φ(x, y) satisfies the condition 2.1 and, for a mapping f : V1V2,

(2.18)

for all x, y V1. Then, there exists a unique solution q : V1V2of the Equation 2.17 such that

(2.19)

for all x V1, where

for all x, y V1

3. Stability of the Pexider functional equation

In this section, we assume that V1 is a normed space and V2 is a complete non-Archimedean space. For any mapping f : V1V2, we define two mappings Fe and Fo as follows:

and also define F(x) = f(x) -f(0). Then, we have obviously

(3.1)

Theorem 3.1. Let σ : V1V1be a continuous involution and the mappings f i : V1V2for i = 1, 2, 3, 4 and δ > 0, satisfy

(3.2)

for all x, y V1, then there exists a unique solution q : V1V2of the Equation 2.5 and a mapping v : V1V2which satisfies

for all x, y V1and exists two additive mappings such that for i= 1, 2 and, for all x V1,

(3.3)
(3.4)
(3.5)
(3.6)

Proof. It follows from (3.2) that

and so, for all x, y V1,

then,

(3.7)

Similarly, we have

(3.8)

for all x, y V1.

Now, first by putting y = 0 in Equation 3.7 and applying Equation 3.2 and second by putting x = 0 in Equation 3.7 and applying Equation 3.2 once again, we obtain

(3.9)
(3.10)

for all x, y V1 and so these inequalities with Equation 3.7 imply

(3.11)

Replacing y with σ(y) in Equation 3.11, we get

(3.12)

It follows from Equations 3.1, 3.11 and 3.12 that

By Theorem 2.1 of [24], there exists a unique solution q : V1V2 of the functional Equation 2.5 such that

(3.13)

for all x V1.

As a result of the inequalities Equations 3.11 and 3.12, we have

(3.14)

It is easily seen that the mapping v : V1V2 defined by

is a solution of the functional equation

for all x, y V1.

Replacing both of x, y in Equation 3.14 with , We get

(3.15)

for all x V1. Now, Equations 3.13 and 3.15 imply

(3.16)

and

(3.17)

Similarly, it follows from the inequalities Equations 3.7, 3.10 and 3.13 that

(3.18)
(3.19)

Since Equation 3.8 implies

(3.20)
(3.21)

for all x, y V1, we have

(3.22)
(3.23)

for all x V1. Now, from Equations 3.8 and 3.20, we obtain

(3.24)

and so, by interchanging role of x, y in the preceding inequality,

(3.25)

for all x, y V1. Since y + σ (x) = σ (x + σ (y), it follows from Equations 3.1, 3.24 and 3.25 that

(3.26)

By Theorem 2.2, there exists a unique additive mapping such that

(3.27)

Since

for all x V1, we deduce for all x V1.

By a similar deduction, Equations 3.8 and 3.21 imply that there exists a unique additive mapping such that

(3.28)

Moreover, we have for all x V1. Thus, by Equations 3.16, 3.22, 3.27 and 3.28, we obtain

(3.29)

This proves Equation 3.3. Similarly, one can prove Equations 3.4 to 3.6.

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Saadati, R., Vaezpour, S.M. & Sadeghi, Z. On the stability of pexider functional equation in non-archimedean spaces. J Inequal Appl 2011, 17 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2011-17

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