A note on the existence and uniqueness of Hölder solutions of nonlinear singular integral equations (Q686832)

This simple but very interesting paper deals with a modification of the Banach fixed point principle and the Kantorovich majorization principle. This modification depends on the replacing of global Lipschitz condition by local one. More precisely, assume that \(A\) is acting from the ball \(B(x_ 0,R)\) (in a Banach space \(E)\) into \(E\) and \(\| Ax-Ay\|\leq k(r)\| x-y\|\) for \(x,y\in B(x_ 0,r)\), \(r\leq R\). Define a scalar function \(a\): \([0,R]\to[0,\infty)\) by putting \(a(r)=\| x_ 0-Ax_ 0\|+\int^ r_ 0k(t)dt\). Then the existence of the fixed point \(r_ 0\) of the function \(a(\cdot)\) and \(a(R)\leq R\) guarantee that the operator \(A\) has a unique fixed point in the ball \(B(x_ 0,r_ 0)\) which is available by the usual iteration procedure. It is shown that this result can be successfully applied to the nonlinear singular integral equation of the form \(x(t)=\int^ b_ a\bigl(K(t,s)/(t-s)\bigr)f\bigl(s,x(s)\bigr)ds\) in the space of Hölder continuous functions.