Applications of the Leray-Schauder alternative to some Volterra integral and integrodifferential equations (Q1911909)

The author proves the global existence of solutions for some nonlinear Volterra integral and integrodifferential equations, of the type \[ x(t)=h(t)+\int^t_0 k(t,s)g(s,x(s))ds\tag{1} \] and \[ x'(t)=f\Biggl(t,x(t),\int^t_0 k(t,s)g(s,x(s))ds\Biggr),\qquad x(0)=x_0,\tag{2} \] where \(h\in C([ 0,T ],\mathbb{R}^n)\), \(k\in C([ 0,T ]\times [0, T] \times [0, T],\mathbb{R})\), \(g\in C([0, T] \times\mathbb{R}^n,\mathbb{R}^n)\) and \(f\in C([ 0,T ]\times\mathbb{R}^n \times\mathbb{R}^n,\mathbb{R}^n)\) and \(x_0\) is a given constant. Under some additional growth conditions on the functions \(h\), \(k\), \(g\) and \(f\), he obtains necessary a priori bounds for applying the usual Leray-Schauder degree (for completely continuous perturbations of the identity), to appropriate fixed point problems associated to (1) and (2).