An existence theorem for a Volterra integral equation with deviating arguments (Q916048)

If the following conditions hold: (i) \(K:\Delta \times R^{nm}\to R^ n\), \(\Delta =\{(t,s):\;0\leq s<t<\infty \}\) is continuous and there exist continuous functions m, a, b such that \(| K(t,s,x)| \leq m(t,s)+a(t)b(s)\sum^{n}_{i=1}| x_ i|,\) (ii) there exist constants A, M, that \(\int^{t}_{0}m(t,s)ds\leq Aa(t)\exp (ML(t))\) with \(L(t)=\int^{t}_{0}a(s)b(s)ds,\) (iii) the functions \(h_ i\) are continuous, \(h_ i(0)=0,\) \(h_ i(t)\leq t,\) \(a(h_ i(t))\leq B_ ia(t)\) for \(i=1,...,n\), (iv) G is continuous and bounded, (v) g is continuous and satisfies conditions of the form \(| g(t,x)-g(t,y)| \leq \sum^{n}_{i=1}\alpha_ i(t)| x_ i-y_ i|,\) (vi) \(H_ i\) is continuous and satisfies \(L(H_ i(t))-L(t)\leq N_ i\) with a certain estimate for \(a(H_ i(t))/a(t)\), then the equation \[ x(t)=G(x)g(t,x(h_ 1(t)),...,x(h_ n(t)))+\int^{t}_{0}K(t,s,x(H_ 1(s)),...,x(H_ m(s)))ds \] has at least one solution x in the space \(C_ p=C([0,\infty),p(t),R^ n)\) with \(p(t)=[a(t)\exp (ML(t)+t)]^{- 1}\) such that \(| x(t)| \leq a(t)\exp (ML(t))\) for any \(t\geq 0\).