set differential equations with causal operators与因果运营商建立微分方程.pdf

SET DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH CAUSAL OPERATORS Z. DRICI, F. A. MCRAE, AND J. VASUNDHARA DEVI Received 21 October 2004 We obtain some basic results on existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence of solutions with respect to initial values for set differential equations with causal operators. 1. Introduction Differential equations involving causal operators have gained much attention of late and some results are assembled in a recent monograph [1]. The term causal is adopted from the engineering literature. Basically, a causal operator is a nonanticipative operator. The theory of these operators has the powerful quality of unifying ordinary differential equa- tions, integrodifferential equations, differential equations with finite or infinite delay, Volterra integral equations, and neutral functional equations, to name a few. The study of set differential equations (SDE) in a metric space is interesting due to its applicability to multivalued differential inclusions and fuzzy differential equations and its inclusion of ordinary differential systems as a special case [2, 4]. A combination of these two concepts leads to set differential equations with causal op- erators. In this paper, using this setup, we obtain some basic results on existence, unique- ness, and continuous dependence of solutions with respect to initial values. 2. Preliminaries n n Let Kc (R ) denote the collection of all nonempty compact and convex subsets of R . Define the Hausdorff metric D [A,B ] = max sup d(x,A),sup d(y ,B ) , (2.1) x ∈B y ∈A where A, B are bounded sets in Rn and d(x,A) = inf[d(x,y ) : y ∈ A ]. We observe that n Kc (R ) is a complete