Abstract

This note studies the exponential asymptotic stability of the zero solution of the linear Volterra equation x˙ (t) = Ax(t) + t 0 K(t − s)x(s) ds by extending results in the paper of Murakami “Exponential Asymptotic Stability for scalar linear Volterra Equations”, Differential and Integral Equations, 4, 1991. In particular, when K isi ntegrable and has entries which do not change sign, and the equation has a uniformly asymptotically stable solution, exponential asymptotic stability can be identified by an exponential decay condition on the entries of K.