A Filippov theorem for Volterra sweeping processes with one-sided Lipschitz perturbation

Abstract

We prove a Filippov-type stability theorem for integro-differential sweeping processes of Volterra type with an outer multivalued perturbation, in a separable Hilbert space, under the assumptions that the moving sets are uniformly prox-regular and Lipschitz continuous with respect to the Hausdorff distance and that the perturbation is one-sided Lipschitz. Given an absolutely continuous solution of the system perturbed both in the state argument of the multivalued term and by an outer integrable term, we show the existence of a solution of the original Volterra sweeping process and estimate the distance between the two trajectories explicitly in terms of the data of the problem. The estimate becomes sharper when only the outer perturbation is present, and it recovers the Lipschitz dependence on the initial condition of Filippov's classical theorem. The proof combines a reduction of the constrained dynamics to an unconstrained differential inclusion, measurable selection arguments, and an enhanced version of Grönwall's inequality established in this work. As an application, we obtain the Lipschitz dependence of the attainable set on the initial set with respect to the Hausdorff distance, together with a one-sided estimate quantifying the effect of the perturbations. We also work out a spatially distributed fishery model with ecological memory whose harvesting rule, triggered by the aggregate biomass, is one-sided Lipschitz but is not Lipschitz continuous with respect to the Hausdorff distance, so that the classical framework does not apply. For this model, our estimates produce a stability constant governed only by the biological data.