Translation-invariant memories on spaces of exponentially bounded functions (Q762346)

The authors study the structure of the memory M that occurs in autonomous linear differential equations with delays of the form \(u^.+Mu=r\) under natural Caratheodory conditions in a Banach space E where M is a linear mapping from some space of continuous functions on R with values in E to the space of all locally integrable functions on R with values in E. They begin with the study of the structure of translation-invariant memories on reasonable spaces of inputs restricting themselves throughout to finite-dimensional E. The particular spaces examined here are those consisting of all continuous functions that are bounded in the past by suitable exponential functions. The continuity of an invariant memory on such a space then expresses an ''exponential fading'' of the memory. In every case, a translation-invariant continuous memory acting on one of these spaces turns out to be the unique continuous linear extension of a translation-invariant continuous core-memory. They are therefore largely concerned with the extendibility of translation-invariant continuous core-memories to spaces of selected type. Knowledge of the structure of such core-memories may then be applied to obtain information on the structure of their extensions, such as a representation theorem. This result describes a representation of the memory M, roughly in the form \(Mu=(\int^{0}_{-\infty}G(s)u(s+\cdot)ds)^.\) for every u in the domain of M, where G is a suitable operator-valued function, and the superscript dot denotes differentiation. Results also obtained provide necessary and sufficient conditions on G for it to represent a memory in this way.