Asymptotic behaviour of linear evolutionary integral equations (Q5931977)

The asymptotic behaviour of solutions of evolutionary integral equations is well known in the stable case, cf. e.g. \textit{J. Prüss} [Evolutionary integral equations and applications, Monographs in Mathematics, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (1993; Zbl 0784.45006)], \textit{J. Prüss} and \textit{W. M. Ruess} [J. Integral Equations Appl. 5, No. 4, 519-530 (1993; Zbl 0810.45005)] and in the unstable case, it is much more difficult and only few general result are so far known, cf. e.g. \textit{J. Prüss} [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 19, No. 1, 133-149 (1988; Zbl 0642.45045)]. Recently, considerable progress concerning the asymptotic behaviour of bounded solutions of evolution equations has been made, cf. e.g. \textit{W. Arendt} and \textit{C. J. K. Batty} [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 31, No. 3, 291-304 (1999; Zbl 0878.34042)], \textit{C. J. K. Batty, J. van Neerven} and \textit{F. Räbiger} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, No. 5, 2087-2103 (1998; Zbl 0898.44001)], \textit{W. M. Ruess} and \textit{Q. P. Vũ} [J. Differ. Equations 122, No. 2, 282-301 (1995; Zbl 0837.34067)]. In this paper, the authors extend results on evolution equations to evolutionary integral equations. Such extensions are valid in a fairly general setting, but the proofs are quite different from those for evolution equations. They heavily employ recent results on harmonic analysis of bounded vector-valued functions. In fact, they give a short proof of an abstract Tauberian theorem which relates the asymptotic behaviour of bounded measurable functions to their spectrum. Then they apply the Tauberian theorem to bounded solutions of the evolutionary integral equations. Also, they show that it is possible to calculate the spectrum of a solution from spectral properties of the underlying equation.