Delay Differential Equations with Differentiable Solution Operators on Open Domains in C((-∞, 0], Rn) and Processes for Volterra Integro-Differential Equations

Abstract

For autonomous delay differential equations x'(t)=f(xt){x'(t)=f(x_t)} we construct a continuous semiflow of continuously differentiable solution operators x0xt{x_0 \to x_t}, t0{t \le 0}, on open subsets of the Frechet space C((-,0],Rn){C((-\infty, 0], R^n)}. For nonautonomous equations this yields a continuous process of differentiable solution operators. As an application, we obtain processes which incorporate all solutions of Volterra integro-differential equations x'(t)=∫0tk(t,s)h(x(s))ds{x'(t)={\int_0}^t k(t,s) h(x(s)) ds}.