On a functional equation of Bruce Ebanks

Abstract

In the paper Brillouët-Belluot and Ebanks (Aequationes Math 60:233–242, 2000), the authors found all continuous functions f: [0, 1] → [0, + ∞) which verify f(0) = f(1) = 0 and the functional equation

$$f(xy +c f(x) f(y)) = x f(y) + y f(x) +d \, f(x) f(y)$$

where c and d are given real numbers with c ≠ 0. In the present paper we obtain all continuous solutions ${f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}}$ of the functional equation (1).