Nonautonomous locally Lipschitz continuous functional differential equations in spaces of continuous functions

Abstract

A local existence and uniqueness result for the functional differential equation in a Banach space X (FDE) $$\begin{gathered} x\prime (t) \in f(t)x(t) + g(t)x_t ,0 \leqslant t \leqslant T, \hfill \\ x_0 = \phi \in C( - R,0;X) \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ is obtained, for the case where the operatorsf(t) satisfy only a local dissipativity condition and the operatorsg(t) are only locally Lipschitz continuous. The conditions include equations defined on cones.