Existence and asymptotic stability of solutions to a functional-integral equation (Q2470801)

Using a fixed point theorem of Darbo type in the space of bounded continuous functions, the existence of a bounded solution of the equation \[ x(t)=f(t,x(t))+g(t,x(t))\int_{0}^{t}u(t,s,x(s))\,ds \] is obtained when \(| u(t,s,x)|\leq a(t)b(s)\) with small \(a,b\) and \(f(t,\cdot)\) and \(g(t,\cdot)\) are contractions with small constants \(k\) and \(m(t)\) where \(m(t)a(t)\to0\) sufficiently fast as \(t\to\infty\). It is also claimed that the solution \(x\) is asymptotically stable; however, the authors mean by this apparently only that the solution is asymptotically unique, i.e.\ any solution \(y\) of the \textit{same} equation (with not too large norm) satisfies \(x(t)-y(t)\to0\) as \(t\to\infty\).