Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 February 2017
Assume that $(G,+)$ is a commutative semigroup,
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$ is an endomorphism of
$G$ and an involution,
$D$ is a nonempty subset of
$G$ and
$(H,+)$ is an abelian group uniquely divisible by two. We prove that if
$D$ is ‘sufficiently large’, then each function
$g:D\rightarrow H$ satisfying
$g(x+y)+g(x+\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}(y))=2g(x)$ for
$x,y\in D$ with
$x+y,x+\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}(y)\in D$ can be extended to a unique solution
$f:G\rightarrow H$ of the generalised Jensen functional equation
$f(x+y)+f(x+\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}(y))=2f(x)$.