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All paper is related with the non-zero continuous solutions f : G → ℂ of the functional equation
$${\rm{f}}({\rm{x}}\sigma ({\rm{y}})) + {\rm{f}}(\tau ({\rm{y}}){\rm{x}}) = 2{\rm{f}}({\rm{x}}){\rm{f}}({\rm{y}}),\;\;\;\;\;{\rm{x}},{\rm{y}} \in {\rm{G}},$$
where σ; τ are continuous automorphism or continuous anti-automorphism defined on a compact group G and possibly non-abelian, such that σ2 = τ2 = id: The solutions are given in terms of unitary characters of G: