On functional-differential equations with discontinuous right-hand side (Q843676)

This paper is concerned with the functional differential equation \[ \dot{x}=f(t,y(\cdot)),\tag{1} \] where \(y\in C_{\tau}\) (\(C_{\tau}\) is the space of all continuous functions \(y:[-\tau, 0]\to \mathbb{R}\)) and \(f:\mathbb{R}\times C_{\tau}\to \mathbb{R}^n\) is an appropriate function. A solution of the equation \((1)\) is defined as a solution of the functional differential inclusion \(\dot{x}\in F(t,y(\cdot))\), where \(F\) is the convex hull of all limit values of \(f\) at each point \((t,y(\cdot))\). The author derives an equivalent form of equation (1) (in the sense that this form has the same set of solutions to (1)) and, under a generalized Lipschitz-type condition on the function \(f\), he proves a uniqueness result for the equation (1).