Solution to the Volterra equations of the 1st kind with discontinuous kernels in the class of generalized functions (Q447665)

The author considers the following Volterra integral equation of the first kind \[ \int\limits_0^tK(t,s)u(s)=f(t),\quad 0<t<T\leq+\infty, \] where \(f\in C^1(0,T)\) is a given function and the piecewise continuous kernel \(K\) has the form \[ K(t,s)=\begin{cases} K_1(t,s), \quad & (t,s)\in D_1,\\ \ldots & \ldots\\ K_n(t,s), \quad & (t,s)\in D_n, \end{cases} \] where \(D_1,\ldots,D_n\) is a suitably chosen partition of a given origin \(D\). Since the author assumes \(f(0)\neq 0\), the above equation has no classical solutions, so generalized ones are considered. The main result of the paper gives sufficient conditions under which the equation in question possesses a unique solution of the form \[ u(t)=a \delta(t)+x(t), \] where \(\delta(t)\) is the Dirac function, \(x(t)\) is a regular continuous function and \(a=\frac{f(0)}{K_1(0,0)}\). Moreover, the author constructs an asymptotic approximations of parametric generalized solutions.