Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We consider here the equation
1
This equation was first studied by Hammerstein [4] under the assumption that the linear operator
2
is selfadjoint and completely continuous. V. Nemytsky [5] and M. Golomb [3] dropped the assumption that A be selfadjoint and positive. M. Vainberg [6] considered (among other cases) the case in which A is a bounded operator generated by a Carleman kernel. The kernels considered in this work do not necessarily generate bounded, completely continuous or selfadjoint, operators.