Comparison results and monotone iterative technique for impulsive delay differential equations (Q4937987)

The author discusses the existence of extremal solutions to the initial value problem for the impulsive delay differential equation (DDE) \[ \begin{gathered} \dot{u}(t)=f(t,u_t)\quad\text{for}\quad t\in[t_0,t_0+T],\;t\neq t_j,\\ u(t_j^{+})-u(t_j)=I_j(u(t_j)),\quad\text{for}\quad j=1,2,\dots,k,\qquad u_{t_0}=\Phi,\end{gathered} \] where the \(I_j\)'s are given continuous functions. As the solutions to this DDE are in general discontinuous functions, the known iterative techniques should be improved. The author proves a new comparison result that gives sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions to linear impulsive DDEs, and constructs monotone sequences from a linear DDE, which converge monotonically and piecewise uniformly to the extremal solution. This new iterative technique can be applied to linear DDEs.