Positive solutions of a renewal equation

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Institute of Informatics, Jagiellonian University, Nawojki 11, 30-072 Kraków, Poland

An existence theorem is proved for the scalar convolution type integral equation

x (t) = \int_{- \infty}^{\infty} h (t - s) f (s, x (s)) d s

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integral equations, convolution

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