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How to solve a functional equation of the form $1-g(f(s))=m(1-g(s))$?

I have arrived to this equation in several contexts within branching processes. It arises from textbook exercises, so it must be solvable somehow. Here $f$ is a probability generating function which ...
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very elementary proof of Maxwell's theorem

Maxwell's theorem (after James Clerk Maxwell) says that if a function $f(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$ of $n$ real variables is a product $f_1(x_1)\cdots f_n(x_n)$ and is rotation-invariant in the sense that the ...
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Could anyone derive a formula for this?

Edited: I want to get a sentiment score of various sentences and I've tried coming up with an equation that could satisfy the conditions that are inherent to each sentence (It's estimated mood as ...