Approximations of solutions to neutral functional differential equations with nonlocal history conditions (Q820043)

This paper deals with the approximation to the solution for the partial neutral functional-differential equation with a nonlocal condition; \[ \frac{d}{dt}\big(u(t)+g\big(t,u(t),u(t-\tau_1)\big)\big)+Au(t) =f\big(t,u(t),u(t-\tau_2)\big)\big), t>0,\quad h(u)= \phi \text{ on }[-\tau ,0], \] considered in a separable Hilbert space \(H\), where \(\tau=\)max\(\{\tau_1, \tau_2\}\), \(\tau_1, \tau_2>0\), \(A\) is a closed, positively defined, selfadjoint, linear operator from a dense subset of \(H\) to \(H\), it has the pure point spectrum and a complete orthonormal system of eigenfunctions, the functions \(f\) and \(g\) are continuous and \(\phi \in C^{\alpha}_0\). Note that under such hypotheses, \(A\) generates an analytical semigroup in \(H\). The authors consider the suitable sequence of approximate integral equations and establish the existence and uniqueness of a solution for each of the approximate integral equations. Then, they prove that the solutions of these approximate integral equations converge to a solution of an integral equation associated to the initial problem. Moreover, they prove also a convergence theorem by using Faedo-Galerkin approximations.