Well-posedness of Linear Integro-Differential Equations with Operator-valued Kernels

Abstract: We study linear integro-differential equations in Hilbert spaces with operator-valued kernels and give sufficient conditions for the well-posedness. We show that several types of integro-differential equations are covered by the class of evolutionary equations introduced in [R. Picard. A structural observation for linear material laws in classical mathematical physics. Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 32(14):1768-1803, 2009]. We therefore give criteria for the well-posedness within this framework. As an example we apply our results to the equations of visco-elasticity.