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We review and extend a method introduced by Pi-Calleja in 1954 for describing additive generators of some associative functions on closed intervals.
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Alsina, C. On a method of Pi-Calleja for describing additive generators of associative functions. Aeq. Math. 43, 14–20 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01840471
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