A class of semilinear delay differential equations with nonlocal initial conditions (Q1692428)

The author investigates the existence of mild solutions for the nonlinear delay differential evolution Cauchy problem \[ \begin{aligned} u'(t)=Au(t)+f(t,u_t)+g(t,u_t),\quad t\in [0,T],\\ u(t)=H(u)(t),\quad t\in [-\tau,0]. \end{aligned}\leqno(1) \] Here, \(A:D(A)\subseteq X\to X\) is a linear operator which generates the \(C_0\)-semigroup of contractions \(\{S(t):\overline{D(A)}\to \overline{D(A)},\,\,t\in\mathbb{R}_+\}\), \(X\) is a real Banach space, \(\tau\geq 0\), \(f,\,g:[0,T]\times C([-\tau,0];X)\to X\) are continuous functions with sublinear growth, \(H:C([-\tau,T];X)\to C([-\tau,0];X)\) is a nonexpansive function, and \(u_t(s)=u(t+s)\) for \(t\in [0,T]\) and \(s\in [-\tau,0]\). Some applications of the main existence result for a damped semilinear wave equation with delay are also presented.