Existence theorems for systems of nonlinear integro-differential equations (Q1042619)

The solvability of systems of integro-differential equations of the form \[ \begin{cases} c_i (t) =\alpha_ i + \beta_i t + \int_0^t (\int_0^{\tau} (Gc)_i (s)ds) d\tau,\\ (Gc)i (t) = F_{1i} (t, c(t), c'(t)) + \int_0^t k(t - s)F_{2i} (c(s))ds,\end{cases}\tag{\(*\)} \] under certain conditions is discussed, where \(c(t)=(c_1(t),c_2(t),\dots,c_m(t))\), \(0\leq t\leq T\), \(1\leq i\leq m\), \(F_{1i}:[0,T]\times\mathbb R^{2m}\to\mathbb R\), \(F_{2i}:\mathbb R^m\to\mathbb R\) and \(k:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R\) are given functions and \(\alpha_i\) and \(\beta_i\) are constants. It is shown that equations (\(*\)) are obtained from the consideration of certain initial-boundary value problems for second order partial differential equations. Further, the results are extended to equations which are more general than (\(*\)).