On existence and local attractivity of solutions of a quadratic Volterra integral equation of fractional order (Q931026)

The authors study the existence and asymptotic behaviour of solutions to integral equations of the form \[ x(t)= p(t)+ {f(t,x(t)\over \Gamma(\alpha)} \int_0^t {u(t,s,x(s))\over (t-s)^{1-\alpha}} \, ds, \quad t\geq 0, \] where \(\alpha > 0\). It is assumed that \(| f(t,x)-f(t,y)| \leq m(t)| x-y| \) and \(| u(t,s,x)-u(t,s,y)| \leq n(t)\varphi(| x-y| )\) and some further restrictions involving \(\alpha\) are put on \(m(t)\), \(n(t)\), \(\varphi(x)\), \(u(t,s,0)\), and \(f(t,0)\). The authors use a measure of noncompactness for the space of bounded continuous functions on \([0,\infty)\) to prove the existence of uniformly locally attractive solutions.