Existence and regularity of solutions to nonlocal retarded differential equations (Q1044407)

The authors consider the following retarded differential equation with general nonlocal history condition: \[ \begin{aligned} u'(t)+ Au(t)= f(t,u(t),u(b(t))),\qquad & 0<t\leq T,\\ h(u)= \phi\quad &\text{on }[-\tau,0],\end{aligned} \] where \((-A)\) is the infinitesimal generator of a \(C_0\)-semigroup on a Banach space \(X\), the nonlinear map \(f\) is defined from \([0,T]\times X\times X\) into \(X\) satisfying local Lipschitz-like condition and \(h\) is a map defined from \(C([-\tau,0]X)\) into \(C([-\tau,0]; X)\). By a fixed point theorem existence and uniqueness of different types of solutions are obtained. Finite-dimensional approximations of these solutions in Hilbert space are established. As an example a model for growth of a population is given.