A trigonometric functional equation with an automorphism

Let S be a semigroup. In the present paper, we determine the complex-valued solutions (f, g) of the functional equation g(xσ(y)) = g(x)g(y) − f(x)f(y) + αf(xσ(y)), x, y ∈ S, where σ : S → S is an automorphism that need not be involutive, and α ∈ C is a fixed constant. Our results generalize and extend the ones by Stetkær in The cosine addition law with an additional term. Aequat Math., no. 6, 90, 1147-1168 (2016), and also the ones by Aserrar and Elqorachi in A generalization of the cosine addition law on semigroups. Aequat Math. 97, 787–804 (2023). Some consequences of our results are presented.