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On the super-stability of exponential Hilbert-valued functional equations
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2011, Article number: 114 (2011)
Abstract
We generalize the well-known Baker's super-stability result for exponential mappings with values in the field of complex numbers to the case of an arbitrary Hilbert space with the Hadamard product. Then, we will prove an even more general result of this type.
2000 MSC: primary: 39B72, secondary: 46E40.
1. Introduction
The stability problem of functional equations goes back to a question of Ulam [1] concerning the stability of group homomorphisms. Hyers [2] gave a first affirmative partial answer to the question of Ulam for Banach spaces (see also [3]). Hyers's theorem was generalized by Aoki [4] for additive mappings and by Rassias [5, 6] for linear mappings by considering an unbounded Cauchy difference. Baker et al. [7] have proved the super-stability of the exponential functional equation: If a function f: ℝ → ℝ is approximately exponential function, i.e., there exists a nonnegative number α such that
for x, y ∈ ℝ, then f is either bounded or exponential. This theorem was the first result concerning the super-stability phenomenon of functional equations. Baker [8] generalized this famous result to any function f: (G, +) → ℂ where (G, +) is a semigroup. The same result is also true for approximately exponential mappings with values in a normed algebra with the property that the norm is multiplicative.
Theorem 1.1. Let (G, +) be a semigroup and Y be a normed algebra in which the norm is multiplicative. Then, for a function f: G → Y satisfying the inequality
for all x; y ∈ G and for some α > 0, either for all x ∈ G or f is an exponential function.
In the other world every approximately exponential map f: (G, +) → Y is either bounded or exponential.
Rassias [5, 6] introduced the term mixed stability of the function f: E → ℝ, where E is a Banach space, with respect to two operations addition and multiplication among any two elements of the set {x, y, f(x), f(y)}. Especially, he raised an open problem concerning the behavior of solutions of the inequality:
(see also [9, 10]). In connection with this open problem, Gavruta [11] gave an answer to this problem in the spirit of Rassiass approach:
Theorem 1.2 (Gavruta). Let X and Y be a real normed space and a normed algebra with multiplicative norm, respectively. If a function f: X → Y satisfies the inequality
for all x; y ∈ X and for some p > 0 and θ > 0, then either ||f(x)|| ≤ δ||x||pfor all x ∈ X with ||x|| ≥ 1 or f is an exponential function, where .
Baker [8] gave an example to present that the Theorem 1.1 is false if the algebra Y does not have the multiplicative norm: Given δ > 0, choose an ε > 0 with |ε - ε2| = δ. Let M2(ℂ) denote the space of 2 × 2 complex matrices with the usual norm and f: ℝ → M2(ℂ) is defined by f(x) = exe11 + exe22 where e ij is defined as the 2 × 2 matrix with 1 in the (i, j) entry and zeroes elsewhere. We will show that such behavior is typical for approximately exponential mappings with values in Hilbert spaces with Hadamard product which is not multiplicative.
Let H be a Hilbert space with a countable orthonormal basis {e n : n ∈ ℕ}. For two vectors x, y ∈ H, we have the Hadamard product (named after French mathematician Jacques Hadamard), also known as the entrywise product on Hilbert space H as the following:
The Cauchy-Schwartz inequality together with the Parseval identity insure that Hadamard multiplication is well defined. In fact,
In the present paper, we state a super-stability result for the approximately exponential Hilbert-valued functional equation by Hadamard product, see Theorem 2.1 below. As a consequence, we prove if a surjective function f: H → H satisfies the inequality
for some α ≥ 0 and for all x; y ∈ H, then it must be exponential with this product, i.e.,
Then, we will prove an even more general result of this type. We also generalized Theorem 2.1 concerning the mixed stability for Hilbert-valued functions.
2. Main results
The function f(x) = axis said to be an exponential function, where a > 0 is a fixed real number. The exponent law of exponential functions is well represented by the exponential equation f(x + y) = f(x)f(y). Hence, we call every solution function of the exponential equation as exponential function. A general solution of the exponential equation was introduced in [12]. In fact, a function f: ℝ → ℂ is an exponential function if and only if either f(x) = exp(A(x) + ia(x)) for all x ∈ ℝ or f(x) = 0 for all x ∈ ℝ; where A: ℝ → ℝ is an additive function and a: ℝ → ℝ satisfies
for all x, y ∈ ℝ. Indeed, a function f: ℝ → ℝ continuous at a point is an exponential function if and only if f(x) = axfor all x ∈ ℝ or f(x) = 0 for all x ∈ ℝ, where a > 0 is a constant.
Definition 2.1. For a Hilbert space H and a semi-group (G,.), a function F: G → H is said to be exponential when
for every x, y ∈ G.
The following proposition characterizes the Hilbert-valued function satisfying the exponential equation:
Proposition 2.2. Let H be a separable complex Hilbert space and the mapping F: ℝ → H be exponential then either F ≡ 0 or there exist a positive integer N such that
for all x ∈ H where A n : ℝ → ℝ is an additive function and a n is a function satisfying (1) for n = 1, 2,..., N.
Proof. For every integer n ≥ 1, consider the function e n ⊗ F: ℝ → ℂ by
for every h ∈ H. Since F is exponential, so is e n ⊗ F for every integer n ≥ 1. Indeed, for n ≥ 1 and x, y ∈ H, we see that
This yields the exponential property of e n ⊗ F for every n ≥ 1. Hence, either
for all x ∈ ℝ or (e n ⊗ F)(x) = 0 for all x ∈ ℝ; here A n : ℝ → ℝ is an additive function and a n is a function satisfying (1). The continuation of proof depend on the dimension of H. In fact, if H is infinite dimensional, since
for every x ∈ H as n → +∞ Equation 2 is not possible for infinitely many positive integer n and hence there exists some positive integer N such that e n ⊗ F = 0 for every integer n > N. Thus, F can be represented as
In the case that H is of finite dimensional type, the proof is clear.
In the following theorem, we generalize the well-known Baker's super-stability result for exponential mappings with values in the field of complex numbers to the case of an arbitrary Hilbert space with the Hadamard product.
Theorem 2.3. Let G be a semigroup and let α > 0 be given. If a function f: G → H satisfies the inequality
for all x; y ∈ G, then either there exists an integer k ≥ 1 such that
for all x ∈ G or
for all x; y ∈ G.
Proof. Assume that the first conclusion (i.e., (4)) is not true. Hence, for every integer k ≥ 1, there exists a a k ∈ G such that
Let , f k (x) = 〈f(x), e k 〉, and g k = 2-kf k . Then, β2 - 2β = α, β > 2 and |f k (a k )| > 2kβ whence |g k (a k )| > β. By applying the Parseval identity and definition of Hadamard product with together relation (3), we find that each scalar-valued function f k is approximately exponential, i.e.,
for every integer k ≥ 1 and x, y ∈ G. Let
then γ k > 1 for every integer k ≥ 1. It follows from (5) for x = y = a k that
and so
Now, make the induction hypothesis
Then, by using (5) for and (6), we observe that
and (6) is established for all n ∈ ℕ. Hence, by definition of f k and g k , we see that
On the other hand, for every x, y, z ∈ G, we have
Consequently, for h(x, y) = f(x.y) - f(x) * f(y), one can see
Now, by using Parseval identity for h(x, y) * f(z) observe that
Applying the last relation for and relation (7) to deduce that
It follows that
for all x, y ∈ G and any n ∈ ℕ. Letting n → +∞, we conclude that h(x, y) = 0 and so f(x.y) = f(x) * f(y) for all x, y ∈ G.
Notice that if f: H → H is a surjection function, then every component function e n ⊗ f is unbounded. In fact, for every positive integer n, there exists some x n ∈ H such that f(x n ) = ne n , and so (e n ⊗ f)(x n ) = n. This led to the following corollary:
Corollary 2.4. If a surjective function f: H → H satisfies the inequality
for some α ≥ 0 and for all x; y ∈ G, then f(x * y) = f(x) * f(y) for all x; y ∈ G.
In the next theorem, we generalize the Gavruta Theorem on mixed stability for Hilbert-valued function with Hadamard product:
Theorem 2.5. Let X be a normed space and H be a separable Hilbert space. If a function f: X → H satisfies the inequality
for all x; y ∈ X and for some p > 0 and θ > 0, then either there exists an integer k ≥ 1 such that
for all x ∈ X with ||x|| ≥ 1 or
for all x; y ∈ X. where .
Proof. Assume that for every integer k ≥ 1 there exists an x k ∈ X with ||x k || ≥ 1 such that
If we set f k (x): = 〈f(x), e k 〉 and g k := 2-kf k , this is equivalent with
It follows from Parseval identity, definition of Hadamard product and relation (8) that
for every x, y ∈ X and k ≥ 1. In particular, for x = y = x k
Since β2 = 2p + 1β + 2θ, hence
Now, make the induction hypothesis
Then, by using (10) for x = y = 2nx k and (11), we get
which in turn proves that the inequality (11) is true for all n ∈ ℕ. Hence, by definition of f k and g k , we see that
Choose x; y; z ∈ X with f(z) ≠ 0. It then follows from (8) that
and again by (8) we get
which together with the last relation yields
where
Let h(x, y) = f(x + y) - f(x) * f(y), then by (13)
and so
In particular, by using the last relation for z k = 2nx k and by considering (12) we deduce that
and consequently,
for all x, y ∈ X and any n ∈ ℕ. Letting n → +∞, we conclude that h(x, y) = 0 and so f(x + y) = f(x) * f(y) for all x, y ∈ X.
At the end of this paper, let us consider the other type multiplication in a Hilbert space. In fact, for a separable Hilbert space H and two elements and of H, one can define the convolution product by
where the numbers can be obtained by discrete convolution:
Hence, it is interesting to study and to phrase the super-stability phenomenon for functions with values in (H, •). For instance, it is desirable to have a sufficient condition for approximately exponential mappings with values in (H, •) to be exponential with the convolution product.
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Rezaei, H., Sharifzadeh, M. On the super-stability of exponential Hilbert-valued functional equations. J Inequal Appl 2011, 114 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2011-114
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