A Fractional spectral method for weakly singular Volterra integro-differential equations with delays of the third-kind

Abstract: In this paper, we present a fractional spectral collocation method for solving a class of weakly singular Volterra integro-differential equations (VDIEs) with proportional delays and cordial operators. Assuming the underlying solutions are in a specific function space, we derive error estimates in the $L^2_{\omega^{\alpha,\beta,\lambda}}$ and $L^{\infty}$-norms. A rigorous proof reveals that the numerical errors decay exponentially with the appropriate selections of parameters $\lambda$. Subsequently, numerical experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the method.