Find all functions for which
holds for all real numbers and .
Answer: .
Find all functions for which
holds for all real numbers and .
Answer: .
Substituting gives , hence . Using this after substituting into the original equation gives for all , i.e., is even.
Substituting into the original equation gives . By being even, also . Hence . As covers all real values, one can conclude that
for all real numbers .
Substituting for into (4) and simplifying the terms by using that is even, one obtains . Together with (4), this implies
for all real numbers .
Now taking in the original equation followed by applying (5) leads to for all real . As covers all real values, one can conclude that
for all real numbers . Thus the original equation reduces to
Taking here gives , i.e., is constant, as covers all real numbers. As 0 must be among the values of by (6), is the only possibility.