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[MSE] Help on a special kind of functional equation. - MphLee - 06/10/2021 Hi, I know this is not directly related to tetration. It is related to iteration theory and solving functional equations. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4168919/computation-and-properties-of-a-function-fg-beta-alpha-kn-fg-alpha-beta The question is the following \( f(g,\beta\alpha,x+y)=f(g^\alpha,\beta,x)f(g,\alpha,y) \) Mind that here x,y can be thought to be numbers. But the crucial part is that \( \alpha \), \( \beta \) and \( g \) are intended to be matrices, formal powerseries or functions (non commutative objects in general) under composition. I ask also here because with JmsNxn deep familiarity with iterated composition (in the question i rendered the Omega notation as a product to not scare away normies) I could get some knowledge. RE: [MSE] Help on a special kind of functional equation. - JmsNxn - 06/11/2021 Is this some kind of semi-direct product? Jesus; that would be cool... Let me think on this... I'll see if I can think of anything. Is \( g^\alpha \) really supposed to be an element of \( \text{Aut} \); rather than necessarily a conjugation? ........ Update: So I'm not certain I can answer this; but, did you understand when I introduced the congruent integral (if you read the paper)? This is a different form of the compositional integral that is in a "modded out space". I can reduce (I think); your question into the abelian case; but I need to know how much of the congruent integral I should explain. Also; what the solutions \( f \) are referred to as is homormorphisms of the semi-direct products between two groups. In this case you are taking an inner automorphism \( g^{\alpha}\in \text{InnAut}(G) \subset \text{Aut}(G) \). Then you are constructing what is typically written, \( G \propto_{g^\alpha} N\\ \) And you are looking for \( f : G \propto_{g^\alpha} N \to G \) There's a word for this; I can't remember it exactly. Also, this forum doesn't have the best latex implementation; so \( \propto \) should actually be the symbol \( \rtimes \); which is more angular.  It should look more like this  ..... I'll explain this better tomorrow. Long night; but it's at least SOMETHING like this. Nonetheless; your answer lies in semi-direct products. RE: [MSE] Help on a special kind of functional equation. - JmsNxn - 06/13/2021 I finally can answer your question. I was a little confused about the details before; but it's definitely a semi-direct product. Let's first of all, ignore the function \( f \). Let's write a product, \( (xy,\beta \alpha) = (\varphi(\alpha)(x),\beta)(y, \alpha)\\ x,y \in N\,\,\alpha,\beta \in G\\ \) And call this group, \( N \propto_\varphi G\\ \) Where \( \varphi(\alpha) : G \to \text{Aut}(N) \). Where \( \text{Aut}(N) \) is the group of isomorphisms of \( N \). Now; there are many choices of \( \varphi(\alpha) \) (something to do with Euler's phi function will be involved in the estimate of how many). Now when you write \( g^{\alpha} = \alpha g \alpha^{-1} \in \text{Aut}(G) \), you are choosing an isomorphism of \( \text{Aut}(G) \to \text{Aut}(N) \); let's call this \( \psi : \text{Aut}(G) \to \text{Aut}(N) \). We can do this because we're only going to care about \( f \) in the final result. And this is just considering \( f(g,\alpha,x) \) at an implicit level in the preimage and considering it equivalent. Now, here is where I wasn't making any sense before. You wrote your equation backwards from the usual semi-direct product. The right way I should've written; which I apologize for saying. Is that it's, \( N \propto_{\psi(g)} G = N \propto_{\varphi} G\\ \) You are now looking for projections, \( f(N \propto_{\psi(g)} G) \to G\\ \) I fucking knew it was semi-direct products! Took me a while to think about it though... Regards, James. I hope this helps. Long story short; you have a lot of group theory at your disposal, Mphlee. May I recommend dummit & foote. RE: [MSE] Help on a special kind of functional equation. - MphLee - 06/14/2021 Yes! That's very promising. I'll have to work hard on this. Thank you so much! I believe that it is the solution: I just need to rephrase it, play with it a bit and prove it with my hands. This problem popped out at the intersection between the abstract Jabotinky foundation and superfunction-spaces. Can't wait to find time to work on the details. Thank you again.... nobody there on MSE even had the kindness to drop a single keyword. For group theorist this should be the abc... for sure my question is not well written, my English su*x, but I don't feel is a bad question. RE: [MSE] Help on a special kind of functional equation. - JmsNxn - 06/14/2021 I think your question was written very well. It was probably more suited to Mathoverflow though; stack exchange tends to be mostly for undergraduate homework problems. But even then, the community can be a tad abrasive; and they always poke holes in technicalities while ignoring the larger picture. I deleted my stack exchange accounts a long time ago; bored by how little they actually help. Sometimes, you have to be left to your own wits . I suspect though, no one saw that it was a semi-direct product... just a weird one. Only reason I saw it was because I was thinking about bullet notation. And I was initially trying to give an example of your function. Regards, James