Existence of nondecreasing and continuous solutions of an integral equation with linear modification of the argument (Q2463816)

By using a Darbo type fixed point theorem with the measure of noncompactness, the authors prove the existence of nondecreasing continuous solutions for the integral equation \[ x(t) = a(t) + (Tx)(t)\int_0^{\sigma (t)}u(t,s,x(s),x(\lambda s))\,ds,\quad 0 < \lambda < 1, \] where \(a\in C[0,1]\) is nondecreasing and nonnegative, \(T:C[0,1]\to C[0,1]\) is positive and satisfies the Darbo condition and a linear growth condition, \(\sigma: [0,1]\to [0,1]\) is continuous and nondecreasing, and \(u(t,s,x,y)\) is a continuous function on \([0,1]^2\times\mathbb R^2\) such that it is nonnegative on \([0,1]^2\times\mathbb R_+^2\), nondecreasing in \(t\) on \([0,1]\), and controlled (in \(x\) and \(y\)) by a nonnegative and nondecreasing function on \(\mathbb R_+^2\) with sufficiently small value at one point in the diagonal \(\{(x,x); \;x>0\}\).