Almost automorphy profile of solutions for difference equations of Volterra type (Q2511341)

The authors study the existence of almost automorphic solutions to nonlinear Volterra difference equation of convolution type \[ u(n + 1)=\lambda\sum_{j=-\infty}^n a(n-j)u(j) + f(n, u(n)), \;\;\;n\in\mathbb{Z}, \] where \(\lambda\in\mathbb{C}\), \(\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}|a(n)|<+\infty\) and the perturbation \(f\) is a non-Lipschitz nonlinearity. Nowadays there is a wide interest in developing the qualitative theory for such equations. Volterra difference equations mainly arise to model many real phenomena, like the study of competitive species in population dynamics and the study of motions of interacting bodies, or by applying numerical methods for solving Volterra integral or integro-differential equations. Discrete almost automorphic functions, a class of functions which are more general than discrete almost periodic ones, were considered by \textit{N. Van Minh} et al. [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 134, No. 11, 3257--3266 (2006; Zbl 1120.34044)]. Let \((\mathbb{X}, \|\cdot\|)\) be a complex Banach space. A function \(f: \mathbb{Z}\to\mathbb{X}\) is said to be discrete almost automorphic if for every integer sequence \((k'_n)\), there is a subsequence \((k_n)\) such that \(\lim_{n\to\infty}f(k + k_n)=:\overline{f}(k)\) is well defined for each \(k\in\mathbb{Z}\) and \(\lim_{n\to\infty}\overline{f}(k-k_n)={f}(k)\) for each \(k\in\mathbb{Z}\). Sufficient conditions for the existence of the almost automorphic solutions are obtained for Lipschitz and non-Lipschitz nonlinearity. The paper includes complete proofs, all preliminary results and an intensive list of references with 49 items. Many illustrating remarks and examples are considered.