On the Stability of a Sum Form Functional Equation Related to Information Theory
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https://doi.org/10.26713/jims.v18i3.3994Keywords:
Stability, Additive mapping, Multiplicative mapping, Bounded mappingAbstract
In this manuscript, we intend to discuss the stability problem of Ulam [29] for a sum form functional equation which appears in the characterization of entropies of degree α proposed by Havrda and Charvát [5].
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