Approximation of mild solutions of delay integro-differential equations on Banach spaces (Q6053582)

The paper is devoted to the delayed integro-differential equation \[\left\{\begin{array}{l} u'(t)=Au(t)+\displaystyle\int_0^tG(t-s)u(s)\,ds+f(t,u(t-r)),\,\,\,t\ge 0,\\ u(t)=\varphi(t),\,\,\,t\in [-r,0], \end{array}\right.\tag{1}\] and its corresponding abstract differential equation with piecewise constant arguments version \[\left\{\begin{array}{l} u'_{\sigma}(t)=A u_{\sigma}(t)+\displaystyle\int_0^t G(t-s)u_{\sigma}(s)\,ds+f(t,u_{\sigma}(\gamma_{\sigma}(t-r))),\,\,\,t\ge 0,\\ u_{\sigma}(0)=\varphi(0),\,\,\,u_{\sigma}(t)=\varphi(l\sigma),\,\,\,t\in [l\sigma,(l+1)\sigma),\,\,\,l=-k,\ldots,-1,\end{array}\right.\tag{2}\] on the Banach space \((X,\|\cdot\|)\), where \(A,\,G(t),\,\,t\ge 0,\) are closed linear operators (possible unbounded), \(f\) is a given function, \(\varphi:[-r,0]\to X\) is a continuous function, \(r>0\), \(\gamma_{\sigma}:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) is defined by \(\gamma_{\sigma}(t)=E(\frac{t}{\sigma})\sigma\), \(\sigma=\frac{r}{k}\) for some \(k\in \mathbb{N}^*\), and \(E(\cdot)\) is the greatest integer function. By using the theory of resolvent operators, the authors construct a constants variation formula in order to define the mild solutions of problems \((1)\) and \((2)\). Then they study the problem of approximation of the mild solution of equation \((1)\) by the solutions of equation \((2)\) on compact intervals of \(\mathbb{R}_+\) in the first case, and on unbounded intervals in the second case. The authors also obtain explicit exponential decays estimates by using the stability of the resolvent operator and the Halanay inequality.