Variation of constants formula and reduction principle for a class of partial functional differential equations with infinite delay

Abstract In this work, the dynamic behavior of solutions is investigated for a class of partial functional differential equations with infinite delay. We suppose that the undelayed homogeneous part generates an analytic semigroup and the delayed part is continuous with respect to fractional powers of the generator. Firstly, a variation of constants formula is obtained in the corresponding α -norm space, which is mainly used to establish a reduction principle of complexity of the considered equation. The reduction principle proves that the dynamics of the considered equation is governed by an ordinary differential equation in finite dimensional space. As an application, we investigate the existence of periodic, almost periodic and almost automorphic solutions for the original equation.