Estimates on the solutions of certain higher order differential and integrodifferential equations (Q2785677)

The author obtains some estimates on solutions to some differential and integro-differential equations in a unified way and uses them to study the boundedness and the symptotic behavior of the solutions. The main tool to get those estimates is a generalization of some Gronwall type inequalities. The equations are: NEWLINE\[NEWLINEy^{(n)}=f(t,y,y',\dots,y^{(n-1)}), \qquad y^{(k)}(t_0)=c_k, \qquad k=0,1\dots,n-1,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINEy^{(n)}+\sum_{i=1}^na_i(t)y^{(n-i)}=f(t,y,y',\dots,y^{(n-1)}),NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINEy^{(n)}=g(t,y,y',\dots,y^{(n-1)},Sy), \qquad y^{(k)}(t_0)=c_k, \qquad k=0,1,\dots,n-1,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINEy^{(n)}+\sum_{i=1}^na_i(t)y^{(n-i)}=g(t,y,y',\dots,y^{(n-1)},Sy)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with NEWLINE\[NEWLINESy(t)=\int_{t_0}^th(t,s,y(s),\dots,y^{(n-1)}(s) ds.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE As an example of the inequalities proved by the author it is shown that if \(x(t),\alpha(t),\beta(t)\) and \(r(t)\) are given \(C^1\) maps on the compact interval \(I\) and it holds that NEWLINE\[NEWLINEx(t)\leq\alpha(t)+\beta(t)\int_{t_0}^tr(s)[L_1(s,\alpha(s))+\int_{t_0}^sL_2(\tau,x(\tau)) d\tau]dsNEWLINE\]NEWLINE for all \(t\in I\), then it follows NEWLINE\[NEWLINEx(t)\leq\alpha(t)+\beta(t)\int_{t_0}^tr(s)[L_1(s,\alpha(s))+\int_{t_0}^sL_2(\tau,\alpha(\tau)) d\tau]ds,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\exp(\int_{t_0}^tM_1(s,\alpha(s))\beta(s)+\int_{t_0}^t M_2(\tau,\alpha(\tau)) d\tau ds),NEWLINE\]NEWLINE whenever NEWLINE\[NEWLINE0\leq L_i(t,u)-L_i(t,v)\leq M_i(t,v)(u-v),NEWLINE\]NEWLINE for \(i=1,2\), \(L_i\) and \(M_i\) satisfying some additional smoothness conditions.