Existence and uniqueness for a class of mixed type differential equations (Q4339984)

A class of mixed type functional differential equations with pairwise constant arguments having the form \[ \frac{d}{dt} \{x(t)- D(x_t)\}= L_1(x_t)+ L_2(x_{[t+\beta]})+ f(t)\qquad (t\geq 0) \] is studied. Here \(D\), \(L_1\) and \(L_2\) are bounded linear mappings from \(C([-r,0], \mathbb{C}^N)\) to \(\mathbb{C}^N\), \(f:[0,\infty)\to \mathbb{C}^N\) is locally integrable, \(\beta\geq 0\) is a parameter and \([\cdot]\) is the integer part function. The initial value problem is discussed and necessary and sufficient conditions for existence and uniqueness are obtained.