FIXED POINTS AND STABILITY OF A CLASS OF NONLINEAR DELAY INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH VARIABLE DELAYS.

In this work we study a class of second order nonlinear delay integrodifferential equations x (t) + f (t, x (t), x (t)) x (t) + N/Σ/j=1 ftt-tj(t) a j (t, s) g j (s, x (s)) ds + N/Σ/j=1 b j (t) x' (t - Tj(t)) = 0, with variable delays and give some new conditions ensuring that the zero solution is asymptotically stable by means of the fixed point theory. Our work extends and improves previous results in the literature such as, D. Pi [17, 18] and T. A. Burton [10]. An example is given to illustrate our claim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]