Measures of noncompactness and solvability of an integral equation in the class of functions of locally bounded variation (Q1197439)

The authors study the solvability of the nonlinear Volterra equation \(x(t)=u(t)+\int^ t_ 0k(t,s)f[s,x(m(s))]ds\) \((0\leq t<\infty)\) in the space of the functions \(x\in L^ 1(0,\infty)\) of locally bounded variation. The main tool is the Vitali compactness criterion in \(L^ 1\), combined with a measure of weak non-compactness \(\gamma\) which is equivalent to \textit{F. S. De Blasi}'s measure \(\beta\) [Bull. Math. Soc. Sci. Math. R. S. R. n. Ser. 21(69), 259-262 (1977; Zbl 0365.46015)].