The Wiener-Hopf integral equation in the supercritical case (Q1889684)

The author studies an asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the homogeneous Wiener-Hopf integral equation \(S(x)=\int_0^\infty K(x-t)S(t) \,dt\), \(x>0,\) with smooth nonnegative even kernel \(K(x)\) such that \(K^{\prime}(x)\leq 0, K^{\prime\prime}(x)\geq 0,\) and \(K^{\prime\prime}(x) \downarrow \) on \(R^+\). It is proved that in the so-called supercritical case \(\int_0^\infty K(x) \,dx >1/2\) there exists a real solution \(S(x)\) such that \(S(x)=O(x)\) as \(x\to\infty.\) The consideration is based on the factorization of the Wiener-Hopf operator which coincides with the solution problem for the nonlinear integral equation \(V(x)= K(x)+ \int_0^\infty V(t)V(x+t)\,dt, x>0\).