A new contraction condition and its application to weakly singular Volterra integral equations of the second kind (Q1684874)

This paper investigates the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of the following nonlinear Volterra singular integral equation \[ x(t) = f(t) +\int^t_0 F(t, s, x(s))ds, \] where \(t, s \in [0, 1]\), \(f : [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}\) is a continuous function and \(F: \{(t, s) : 0 \leq s < t \leq 1\}\times\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}\). A result is given under a contraction condition. Two examples illustrating the main result are presented.