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Invariant Means in Stability Theory

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This is a survey paper about the use of invariant means in the theory of Ulam type stability of functional equations. We give a summary about invariant means and we present some typical recent applications concerning stability.

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Research was supported by OTKA Grant No. K111651.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

    László Székelyhidi

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

    Janusz Brzdęk

  2. Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Dorian Popa

  3. Department of Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Themistocles M. Rassias

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Székelyhidi, L. (2019). Invariant Means in Stability Theory. In: Brzdęk, J., Popa, D., Rassias, T. (eds) Ulam Type Stability . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28972-0_19

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