Existence and uniqueness of solutions for single-population (Q491328)

Let \(a>0\) and denote \(E=[0,a]\times \mathbb{R}_+\), \(E_a=[-\tau,a]\times \mathbb{R}_+\) and the Hale functional \(z_t=z(t+s)\) for \(s\in [-\tau,a]\). It is supposed that \({c}:E\times \mathcal{C}_+ \to \mathbb{R}\) and \(\lambda :E\times \mathcal{C}_+ \times \mathcal{C}_+\to \mathbb{R}\), where \(\mathcal{C}_+\) is the positive cone of the space of continuous functions from \([-\tau,0]\) into \(\mathbb{R}_+\). Let \(\varphi:E_0 \to \mathbb{R}\), where \(E_0=[-\tau,0]\times \mathbb{R}_+, \mathcal{C}^*_+\) is the cone of positive continuous functionals over \(\mathcal{C}_+\). The authors investigates the single-species population model with the renewal condition, i.e. production of young individuals, which described by the functional-differential equation \[ \partial_t u(t,x)+c(t,x,z_t)\partial_x u(t,x)=u(t,x)\lambda(t,x,u_t(\cdot,x),z_t) \] with the initial condition \(u(t,x)=\varphi(t,x)\;\) for \(\;(t,x) \in E_0\), where the renewal condition is \(u(t,0)=\int_{0}^{\infty}K(t)u_t(\cdot,x)dx\) for \(t\in [0,a], K:E\to \mathcal{C}^*_+\) (\(\mathcal{C}_+^*\) is the cone of positive continuous functional over \(\mathcal{C}_+\)) and \(z(t)=\int_{0}^{\infty}u(t,x)dx\) for \(t\in [-\tau,a]\). The age also is described by relations of special form. The aim of the article are the existence and uniqueness results, which are proved by a fixed-point principle applied to some equivalent integral problem in relevant functional space.