On a quadratic fractional Hammerstein-Volterra integral equation with linear modification of the argument (Q540230)

The authors examine a quadratic fractional Hammerstein-Volterra integral equation with a linear modification of the argument: \[ x(t)=a(t)+\frac{f(t,x(t))}{\Gamma(\alpha)} \int\limits_0^t \frac{k(t,\tau)u(\tau,x(\tau),x(\lambda\tau))}{(t-\tau)^{1-\alpha}}d\tau,\;\; t\in [0,1],\; 0<\alpha,\lambda<1, \] where \(a:[0,1]\to\mathbb R\), \(f:[0,1]\times\mathbb R\to\mathbb R\), \(k:[0,1]\times [0,1]\to\mathbb R\) and \(u:[0,1]\times\mathbb R\times\mathbb R\to\mathbb R\) are functions satisfying suitable assumptions. Using a Darbo-type fixed point theorem and some techniques of the theory of measures of noncompactness, they derive the existence of a nonnegative continuous and nondecreasing solution to the above equation defined on \([0,1]\).