On the existence of a global mild solution for a nonlinear integrodifferential equation with a singular kernel (Q1899925)

The author shows that there is a global solution, in a certain weak sense, of the integro-differential Volterra equation \[ u_t (t, x)= \int^t_0 b(t- s)g(u_x (s, x))_x ds+ f(t, x), \qquad t>0, \quad 0< x< 1, \] with \(u(t, 0)= u(t, 1)=0\) for \(t>0\) and \(u(0, x)\) given. It is assumed that \(b\) is locally integrable, nonnegative, nonincreasing, convex, and \(\lim_{t\downarrow 0} b(t)= +\infty\). The nonlinearity \(g\) is required to satisfy \(0< \alpha\leq g' (r)\leq \beta< \infty\) for all \(r\in \mathbb{R}\). The solution is such that \(\int^1_0 |u_x (t, x)|^2 dt\) and \(\int^1_0|(\int^t_0 b(t- s)g(u_x (s, x))_xds) |^2 dx\) are locally bounded when \(t\geq 0\).