Compactness and existence results for ordinary differential equations in Banach spaces (Q1806180)

Summary: The authors prove that the Picard-Lindelöf operator \[ Hx(t)= \int^t_{t_0} f(s, x(s)) ds \] with a vector function \(f\) is continuous and compact (condensing) in \(C\), if \(f\) satisfies only a mild boundedness condition, and if \(f(s,\cdot)\) is continuous and compact (resp. condensing). This generalizes recent results of the second author [ibid. 17, No. 1, 23-35 (1998; Zbl 0894.47055)] and immediately leads to existence theorems for local weak solutions to the initial value problem for ordinary differential equations in Banach spaces.