Differentiability of the age-dependent population system with time delay in the birth process (Q1770997)

The author analyzes the following model of age-dependent population dynamics with instantaneous time delay in the birth process: \[ \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial p}{\partial t}+\frac{\partial p}{\partial r} &=-\mu(r)p(r,t), \quad 0<r<r_m,\;t>0,\\ p(r,\theta)&= p_0(r,\theta), \quad 0\leq r\leq r_m,\;-\tau\leq\theta\leq 0,\\ p(0,t)&= \beta\int_{r_1}^{r_2}k(r)h(r)p(r,t-\tau)\,d\tau, \quad t>0, \end{aligned} \] where \(p(r,t)\) denotes the age density distribution at time \(t\) and age \(r\), \(\mu(r)\) is the relative mortality of the population, \(r_m\) is the highest age ever attained by individuals of the population, \(k(r)\) is the female sex ratio at age \(r\), \(h(r)\) is the fertility pattern, \([r_1,r_2]\) is the fecundity period of females, \(\beta\) is the specific fertility rate of females and \(\tau\) is the delay due to pregnancy. Assuming that \(k(r),h(r)\) are a.e. diffenrentiable on \((r_1,r_2)\) and that \(k'(r),h'(r)\in L^1(r_1,r_2)\). The author shows that there exists a time \(t_0\) such that the solution semigroup \(\{T(t), t\geq 0\}\) of the population evolution equation is eventually differentiable for \(t>t_0\).