Positive Periodic Solution for Neutral-Type Integral Differential Equation Arising in Epidemic Model

Abstract

This paper is devoted to investigating a class of neutral-type integral differential equations arising in an epidemic model. By using Mawhin’s continuation theorem and the properties of neutral-type operators, we obtain the existence conditions for positive periodic solutions of the considered neutral-type integral differential equation. Compared with previous results, the existence conditions in this paper are less restricted, thus extending the results of the existing literature. Finally, two examples are given to show the effectiveness and merits of the main results of this paper. Our results can be used to obtain the existence of a positive periodic solution to the corresponding non-neutral-type integral differential equation.

Keywords

• positive periodic solution
• existence
• neutral-type
• time-varying delay