Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (Feb 2008)

Functional compression-expansion fixed point theorem

  • Donal O'regan,
  • Johnny Henderson,
  • Richard Avery

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2008, no. 22
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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This paper presents a generalization of the fixed point theorems of compression and expansion of functional type. As an application, the existence of a positive solution to a second order conjugate boundary value problem is considered. We conclude with an extension to multivalued maps.

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