TY - JOUR AU - Falah, Hassanein AU - Darania, Parviz AU - Pishbin, Saeed PY - 2024 TI - Study of numerical treatment of functional first-kind Volterra integral equations JO - AIMS Mathematics SP - 17414 EP - 17429 VL - 9 IS - 7 AB - First-kind Volterra integral equations have ill-posed nature in comparison to the second-kind of these equations such that a measure of ill-posedness can be described by ν-smoothing of the integral operator. A comprehensive study of the convergence and super-convergence properties of the piecewise polynomial collocation method for the second-kind Volterra integral equations (VIEs) with constant delay has been given in [1]. However, convergence analysis of the collocation method for first-kind delay VIEs appears to be a research problem. Here, we investigated the convergence of the collocation solution as a research problem for a first-kind VIE with constant delay. Three test problems have been fairly well-studied for the sake of verifying theoretical achievements in practice. UR - https://doi.org/10.3934/math.2024846 DO - 10.3934/math.2024846