ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
On the existence of a fuzzy integral equation of Urysohn-Volterra type
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University (Damanhour Branch), 22511 Damanhour, Egypt
Abstract
We present an existence theorem for integral equations of Urysohn-Volterra type involving fuzzy set valued mappings. A fixed point theorem due to Schauder is the main tool in our analysis.
Keywords
fuzzy integral equation, Urysohn-Volterra, Hausdorff metric, Schauder fixed point theorem
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