Stability of explicit and diagonal implicit Runge-Kutta methods for nonlinear Volterra functional differential equations in Banach spaces (Q864740)

The authors consider stability properties of explicit and diagonal implicit Runge-Kutta methods applied to initial value problems on nonlinear Volterra functional differential equations (VFDEs) in Banach spaces. The introduction includes a brief review of relevant existing stability theory. Section 2 recalls the VFDEs test problem classes introduced by the authors in an earlier paper and gives details about the adaptation of Runge-Kutta methods to the initial value problem \[ y'(t)=f(t, y(t),y(.)), \quad a \leq t \leq b;\quad y(t)=\phi(t), a-\tau \leq t \leq a, \] where \(a, b, \tau \) are constants with \(-\infty<a<b<+\infty, \phi \in \mathbb{C}_D[a-\tau,a]\) is a given initial value function and \(f\) is a continuous mapping satisfying stated conditions. Two problem classes are identified, \(D_{\lambda*}(\alpha, \beta, \mu_1, \mu_2)\) and \(D_{\lambda*,\delta}(\alpha, \beta, \mu_1, \mu_2)\) and in sections 2 and 3 new stability results are established for Runge-Kutta methods applied to initial value problems in these two classes. The paper concludes with two examples of method and one illustrative numerical example.