Abstract:
The perturbations of additive real characters on a free group $F$ are studied. A description is given of the space of its pseudocharacters, i.e., the real functions $f$ on $F$ such that the set $\{f(xy)-f(x)-f(y)$; $x,y\in F\}$ is bounded and $f(x^n)=nf(x)$$\forall\,n\in\mathbf Z$, $\forall\,x\in F$.