Stability of the spline collocation method for Volterra integral equations (Q5955628)

The stability of the polynomial spline collocation method for Volterra integral equations of the second kind is studied. Stability means here the boundedness of approximate solutions in uniform norm when the number of knots increases. A stability condition for a test type equation is found. Some general results are established and applied to several particular cases including linear,quadratic, and cubic splines. In many practical cases the author gets explicit formulae showing the dependence of the stability on collocation parameters. A series of numerical tests is given, and they support well the theoretical results.