On the Cauchy problem for a class of degenerate differential equations with Lipschitz right-hand side (Q1002823)

The following differential equation is studied: \[ (ax)'=bx+f(t,x), \qquad a(x(0))=a(x_0), \] where \(a:D(a)\subset E_1\to E_2\), \(b:D(b)\subset E_1\to E_2\), \(D(a)\subset D(b)\), are closed linear operators in Banach spaces with \(a\) surjective, \(f:[0,T]\times B(x_0,R)\to E_2\) is a Lipschitz map, and \(x_0\in D(a)\). Under these assumptions, it is proved that there exists a solution of this problem on some interval \([0,h_0]\), \(h_0>0\). In the proof, the author uses a multivalued inverse map of a surjective linear operator defined on a corresponding function space, and applies a fixed point result for multivalued Lipschitz maps on balls.