Estimate and asymptotic smallness of solutions of a weakly nonlinear implicit Volterra integro-differential equation of the first order on the semiaxis (Q2121949)

The author considers weakly nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations of first order of the following type: \[ x'(t)+ a(t)x(t)+\int^t_{t_0}[Q_1(t,\tau)x(\tau)+ Q_1(t,\tau)x'(\tau)] d\tau = f(t) + F\big(t,x(t) ,\int^t_{t_0} H(t,\tau, x(\tau)) d\tau\big) , \] where the nonlinearities \(F(t,x,y)\) and \(H(t,\tau,x)\) are weak in the sense that they are bounded by linear functions in \(y\) and \(x\) respectively. The given functions are all continuous. The author seeks for solutions \(x(t)\) satisfying \(\lim _{t\to \infty} x(t)=0\). The equation is rewritten in the form \(x'(t)+\lambda(t)x(t)= W(t)y(t)\) where \(\lambda, w\) are some positive functions and \(y(t)\) is a new unknown function. Under conditions too complicated to be written here and perhaps difficult to verify, an estimate involving the asymptotics of \(x(t)\) is obtained.