A stability analysis of the trapezoidal method for Volterra integral equations with completely positive kernels (Q751788)

It can be shown that the solution of the Volterra integral equation with completely positive kernel \(y(t)+\int^{t}_{0}b(t-s)y(s)ds=u_ 0+\int^{t}_{0}b(t-s)g(s)ds,\quad t\geq 0\) is nonnegative and nonincreasing provided that the function g is nonincreasing and \(0\leq g(t)\leq u_ 0\) for any \(t>0\). It is proved that under some additional hypotheses this property is inherited by the solution of the recurrence relation resulting from applying the trapezoidal method to this equation.