Jg. Si et Ss. Cheng, SMOOTH SOLUTIONS OF A NONHOMOGENEOUS ITERATIVE FUNCTIONAL-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section A. Mathematics, 128, 1998, pp. 821-831
This paper is concerned with an iterative functional differential equa
tion x'(t)= c(1)x(t) + c(2)x([2])(t) +... c(m)x([m])(t) + F(t), where
x([i])(t) is the i-th iterate of the function x(t). By means of Schaud
er's Fixed Point Theorem, we establish a local existence theorem for s
mooth solutions which also depend continuously on the forcing function
F(t).