Monotonic solutions of a class of quadratic integral equations of Volterra type (Q2485523)

By means of the technique of measure of noncompactness, the authors prove the existence of monotonic solutions for the following class of quadratic integral equation of Volterra type in a Banach space \[ x(t)=a(t)+(Tx)(t)\int_{0}^{t}v(t,\tau,x(\tau))\,d\tau, \quad t\in I:=[0,M], \] where the function \(a\) is continuous, nondecreasing and nonnegative on the interval \(I\), \(v: I\times I\times \mathbb R\to \mathbb R\) is continuous and nondecreasing with respect to its first argument, and the operator \(T:C(I)\to C(I)\) is continuous. Here \(C(I)\) denotes the Banach space of all continuous functions defined on the interval \(I\) furnished with the standard sup-norm.