Some new bounds for the blow-up time of solutions for certain nonlinear Volterra integral equations

Abstract

In this paper, some new upper and lower bounds on the blow-up time of a certain class of nonlinear Volterra integral equations are presented and compared to previously proposed bounds. In most cases, the new bounds are a significant improvement on previously proposed bounds. We present many new bounds, with varying degrees of accuracy and computational complexity. The derivation of the upper bounds is made possible by a certain covariance inequality from advanced probability theory, which opens the door to many future investigations of blow-up time estimations in many other nonlinear integral equations.