Existence and uniqueness of solutions for single-population

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Abstract: We study a McKendrick-von Foerster type equation with renewal. This model is represented by a single equation which describes one species which produces young individuals. The renewal condition is linear, but takes into account some history of the population. This model addresses nonlocal interactions between individuals structured by age. The vast majority of size-structured models are also treatable. Our model generalizes a number of earlier models with delays and integrals. The existence and uniqueness is proved through a fixed-point approach to an equivalent integral problem in LinftycapL1.


Let \(a>0\) and denote \(E=[0,a]\times \mathbb{R}_+\), \(E_a=[-\tau,a]\times \mathbb{R}_+\) and the Hale functional \(z_t=z(t+s)\) for \(s\in [-\tau,a]\). It is supposed that \({c}:E\times \mathcal{C}_+ \to \mathbb{R}\) and \(\lambda :E\times \mathcal{C}_+ \times \mathcal{C}_+\to \mathbb{R}\), where \(\mathcal{C}_+\) is the positive cone of the space of continuous functions from \([-\tau,0]\) into \(\mathbb{R}_+\). Let \(\varphi:E_0 \to \mathbb{R}\), where \(E_0=[-\tau,0]\times \mathbb{R}_+, \mathcal{C}^*_+\) is the cone of positive continuous functionals over \(\mathcal{C}_+\). The authors investigates the single-species population model with the renewal condition, i.e. production of young individuals, which described by the functional-differential equation \[ \partial_t u(t,x)+c(t,x,z_t)\partial_x u(t,x)=u(t,x)\lambda(t,x,u_t(\cdot,x),z_t) \] with the initial condition \(u(t,x)=\varphi(t,x)\;\) for \(\;(t,x) \in E_0\), where the renewal condition is \(u(t,0)=\int_{0}^{\infty}K(t)u_t(\cdot,x)dx\) for \(t\in [0,a], K:E\to \mathcal{C}^*_+\) (\(\mathcal{C}_+^*\) is the cone of positive continuous functional over \(\mathcal{C}_+\)) and \(z(t)=\int_{0}^{\infty}u(t,x)dx\) for \(t\in [-\tau,a]\). The age also is described by relations of special form. The aim of the article are the existence and uniqueness results, which are proved by a fixed-point principle applied to some equivalent integral problem in relevant functional space.











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