Extremal solutions of terminal value problems for nonlinear impulsive integro-differential equations in Banach spaces (Q1976452)

The author studies the impulsive integro-differential terminal value problem \[ u'(t)= f(t,u(t),\int_t^\infty K(t,s)u(s) ds),\quad t\geq 0,\quad t\neq t_\kappa, \] \[ u(t_\kappa+)-u(t_\kappa-)= I_\kappa(u(t_\kappa)),\qquad \lim_{t\to\infty} u(t) = u_\infty, \] in an ordered Banach space. The functions \(f\) and \(I_\kappa\) are assumed to satisfy certain natural monotonicity assumptions and the function \(K\) is assumed to be nonnegative and continuous. A comparison principle is first established, and then a monotone iterative technique is used to derive the existence of maximal and minimal solutions to the problem.