Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to study the existence and asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a nonlinear singular integro-differential equation.
IntroductionIn the past two decades, several papers have been devoted to the study of singular initial value problems for differential and integro-differential equations under various conditions on the nonlinearity and the kernel (see e.g. [7]). Integro-differential equations have different properties from ordinary differential equations even in the simplest cases (see [2]). Therefore known qualitative methods of investigation of ordinary differential equations, e.g. Wazewki's topological method, cannot be applied to integrodifferential equations. The fundamental tools used in the existence proofs of all above mentioned works are essentially Schauder-Tychonoff's fixed point theorem and Banach contraction principle.In this paper we deal with the following problem
t (1) g(t)y'(t) = a(t)y(t){l + f{t,y(t),\K(t,s,y(s))ds)), y(