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Sam Hopkins
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Functional equation $f(x*y) = f(f(x)*f(y))$

Find all endo-functions $f$ on a commutative semigroup $(\mathbb{S},*)$ such that $f(x*y) = f(f(x)*f(y))$.

Typical case of interest are $(\mathbb{N},+)$ or $(\mathbb{Z}/k\mathbb{Z},+)$ or $(\mathbb{Z}/k\mathbb{Z},.)$.

QUESTION : Has any seen this it before ?

I like to call them mo-morphisms ( phonetically it repeats as in the right hand side of the equation).

The motivation comes from the function $f(n) = n \mod 10$ ( any base will do ) on $(\mathbb{N},+)$.