Abstract:
In this work, we investigate the Cauchy problem for differential equations with nonlocal initial conditions and the Cauchy problem for abstract functional equations with infinite delay.
In Chapter 1, under general and natural hypotheses, we establish some new theorems about the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the nonlocal Cauchy problem for semilinear integro-differential equations. As a consequence, we unify and extend the corresponding theorems given in [14, 17, 61, 70] for the Cauchy problem for differential equations or integrodifferential equations with nonlocal initial conditions.
In Chapter 2 we prove certain nonlinear convolution integral equations in Banach spaces, to which the existing related results did not apply, to possess continuous solutions. As applications, new existence and uniqueness theorems for mild and classical solutions of nonlocal Cauchy problems for semilinear evolution equations are obtained.
In Chapter 3 we consider mainly the solvability of the Cauchy problem for four classes of abstract functional equations with infinite delay. A series of new results are established with the help of noncompactness measures and Kamke functions or the Lipschitz condition.
Chapter 4 concerns with the regularity for a functional differential equation with infinite delay in a Banach space satisfying the Radon-Nikodym property.
In Chapter 5 we study the wellposedness of the Cauchy problems for a semilinear functional differential equation and a nonautonomous semilinear functional equation with infinite delay in a general Banach space, when the nonlinear term is Frechet differentiable. In Section 1, we set up a wellposedness result on the former one (autonomous case), which generalizes the corresponding results in [3, 8, 13, 22, 23, 35, 36, 45, 46, 48, 51, 58, 59, 71, 77, 78, 84, 86, 87]. Section 2 is devoted to the nonautonomous case. The wellposedness result given
there is new even for the finite delay case.