ON nTH-ORDER NONLINEAR ORDINARY RANDOM DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

An existence result for a nonlinear nth-order ordinary random differential equation is proved under the Caratheodory condition. Two existence results for extremal random solutions are also proved in the Caratheodory case and the discontinuous case of the nonlinearity involved in the equations. Our investigations are carried out in the Banach space of continuous real-valued functions on closed bounded intervals of the real line together with the application of a random version of the Leray-Schauder principle.