On each finite interval use the Banach space with the supremum norm. The free term belongs to , and the time-integral operator maps to itself with norm at most . The strongly continuous semigroup property and boundedness of justify continuity of the Bochner integral.
Define
The factorial bound for a Volterra iterate gives . The series therefore converges absolutely in . Since is a bounded linear operator on , it can be passed through the convergent sum, giving
Thus , the required integral formulation, and . Each term on a larger interval restricts to the identical term on a smaller interval, so these constructions define a single global solution without having to restart at successive times. This is an integrable Volterra solution for normalized velocity relaxation. It is a mild solution of an abstract Cauchy problem in and hence an weak solution in the paper's integral-formulation sense. No smallness condition such as is needed.