A study of solutions of some nonlinear integral equations in the space of functions of bounded second variation in the sense of Shiba (Q2148338)

The authors study the existence and uniqueness of solutions for nonlinear Hammerstein equations of the form \[ x(t)=g(t)+\lambda\int_{I}K(t,s)f(x(s))ds,\quad \lambda\in I,\ t\in I=[0,b],\ b>0, \tag{1} \] Volterra-Hammerstein equations of the form \[ x(t)=g(t)+\int_{0}^{t}K(t,s)f(x(s))ds,\quad t\in[0,b],\tag{2} \] and Volterra equations of the form \[ x(t)=g(t)+\int^{t}_{a}K(t,s)f(x(s))ds,\quad t\in[a,b],\ a<b, \tag{3} \] in the space of functions of bounded second variation in the sense of Shiba, viz, \(\bigwedge^{2}_{p}BV([a,b])\). For the proofs of the theorems for Equations (1) and (2), the authors use the Banach contraction principle, while for equations of type (3) the Leray-Schauder alternative theorem is used. A section is devoted to applications, where a nonlinear Hammerstein-Volterra integral equation is solved by means of numerical methods.