Global attractivity results for nonlinear functional integral equations via a Krasnoselskii type fixed point theorem Original Research Article

In this paper, two results concerning the global attractivity and global asymptotic attractivity of the solutions for a nonlinear functional integral equation are proved via a variant of the Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem due to Dhage [B.C. Dhage, A fixed point theorem in Banach algebras with applications to functional integral equations, Kyungpook Math. J. 44 (2004) 145–155]. The investigations are placed in the Banach space of real functions defined, continuous and bounded on an unbounded interval. A couple of examples are indicated for demonstrating the natural realizations of the abstract results presented in the paper. Our results generalize the attractivity results of Banas and Rzepka [J. Banas, B. Rzepka, An application of measures of noncompactness in the study of asymptotic stability, Appl. Math. Lett. 16 (2003) 1–6] and Banas and Dhage [J. Banas, B.C. Dhage, Global asymptotic stability of solutions of a functional integral equations, Nonlinear Anal. (2007), doi:10.1016/j.na.2007.07.038], under weaker conditions with a different method.