Integro-differential equations with constant limits of integration

Abstract

It is proposed in this paper to give a solution of equation (1) in terms of the characteristic numbers and functions of the kernel K for the cases in which K is symmetric and skewsymmetric. Furthermore, some extensions of the theory to more general kernels will be pointed out and a formal analogy between integro-differential equations and partial differential equations will be shown. It is of interest to note that equation (1) may be considered as the limiting case of the finite system of differential equations with constant coefficientsand the results for the integro-differential equations could be predicted from the well-known theory of this last system.f * Volterra, Lincei Rendiconti, serie 5 (1914), 2d semester, p. 394. t Schlesinger, "Zur Theorie der linearen Integrodifferentialgleiehungen," Jahresbericht der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, vol. 24 (1915-16), p. 84.