Approximately Quadratic Mappings on Restricted Domains

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a generalized quadratic functional equation $f(rx + sy) = rf(x) + sf(y) - rsf(x - y)$ where $r, s$ are nonzero real numbers with $r + s = 1.$ We show that this functional equation is quadratic if $r, s$ are rational numbers. We also investigate its stability problem on restricted domains. These results are applied to study of an asymptotic behavior of these generalized quadratic mappings.