Module 1: Introduction
  Lecture 2: Existence, Uniqueness, and Wellposedness
 

 

Remark: The continuity of in both t and y guarantees the existence of a solution and the Lipschitz condition guarantees uniqueness of the solution and is not needed for existence.

For example, the IVP

has two solutions given by

and

The function does not satisfy a Lipschitz condition at .