Spline collocation methods for Fredholm-Volterra integro-differential equations of high order (Q1365433)

The authors consider a general boundary value problem of the type \[ Lx(t)\equiv x^{(m)}(t)+ \sum_{j=0}^{m-1} a_{m-1-j} x^{(m-1-j)}(t)+ \lambda\int_a^b K_1(t,s)x(s)ds+ \int_a^t K_2(t,s)x(s)ds= f(t), \tag{1} \] with \(m\) independent boundary conditions \[ \sum_{k=0}^{m-1} \alpha_{ik} x^{(k)}(a)+ \sum_{k=0}^{m-1} \beta_{ik} x^{(k)}(b)= \gamma_i,\qquad i=1,\dots,m, \tag{2} \] where \(a_k\in C[a,b]\), \(\alpha_{ik}, \beta_{ik}, \gamma_i,\lambda\in \mathbb{R}\), \(k=0,1,\dots, m-1\), \(i=1,\dots, m\), \(a\leq t,s\leq b\), \(K_j(t,s)\in C(\Omega)\), \(\Omega= [a,b]\times [a,b]\), \(j=1,2\). They develop a spline collocation method to obtain an approximate solution of (1) and (2). The projection method is used for this purpose.