Functional equation arising in behavioral sciences: solvability and collocation scheme in Hölder spaces

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Auteurs principaux: Caballero, Josefa, Okrasińska-Płociniczak, Hanna, Płociniczak, Łukasz, Sadarangani, Kishin
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author Caballero, Josefa
Okrasińska-Płociniczak, Hanna
Płociniczak, Łukasz
Sadarangani, Kishin
author_facet Caballero, Josefa
Okrasińska-Płociniczak, Hanna
Płociniczak, Łukasz
Sadarangani, Kishin
contents We consider a generalization of a functional equation that models the learning process in various animal species. The equation can be considered nonlocal, as it is built with a convex combination of the unknown function evaluated at mixed arguments. This makes the equation contain two terms with vanishing delays. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution in the Hölder space which is a natural function space to consider. In the second part of the paper, we devise an efficient numerical collocation method used to find an approximation to the main problem. We prove the convergence of the scheme and, in passing, several properties of the linear interpolation operator acting on the Hölder space. Numerical simulations verify that the order of convergence of the method (measured in the supremum norm) is equal to the order of Hölder continuity.
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spellingShingle Functional equation arising in behavioral sciences: solvability and collocation scheme in Hölder spaces
Caballero, Josefa
Okrasińska-Płociniczak, Hanna
Płociniczak, Łukasz
Sadarangani, Kishin
Numerical Analysis
Classical Analysis and ODEs
We consider a generalization of a functional equation that models the learning process in various animal species. The equation can be considered nonlocal, as it is built with a convex combination of the unknown function evaluated at mixed arguments. This makes the equation contain two terms with vanishing delays. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution in the Hölder space which is a natural function space to consider. In the second part of the paper, we devise an efficient numerical collocation method used to find an approximation to the main problem. We prove the convergence of the scheme and, in passing, several properties of the linear interpolation operator acting on the Hölder space. Numerical simulations verify that the order of convergence of the method (measured in the supremum norm) is equal to the order of Hölder continuity.
title Functional equation arising in behavioral sciences: solvability and collocation scheme in Hölder spaces
topic Numerical Analysis
Classical Analysis and ODEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15324