Krasnosel'skii type compression-expansion fixed point theorem for set contractions and star convex sets (Q780431)

\textit{A. J. B. Potter} [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 19, 93--102 (1974; Zbl 0275.47039)] extended a fixed point theorem due to Krasnosel'skij from compact maps to set-contractions, while a similar result was proved by \textit{Nguyen Phuong Các} and \textit{J. A. Gatica} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 71, 547--557 (1979; Zbl 0448.47035)]. A nice recent survey by \textit{D. O'Regan} and the second author on the state-of-the-art of such problems can be found in the monograph [Theorems of Leray-Schauder type and applications. London: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (2001; Zbl 1045.47002)]. In this paper the authors further improve these results, proving fixed point theorems for compressing or expanding set-contractions on star-shaped domains. The abstract results are illustrated with the initial value problem \[ \begin{cases} x'(t) = f(t, x(t)) +g(t, x'(t))\ (0\le t\le 1)\\ x(0) = 0\end{cases} \] where \(f, g: [0, 1]\times\mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}^n\) are given. The substitution \(x'=: y\) leads to the equivalent problem \[y(t)= f\Biggl(t, \int^t_0 y(s)\,ds\Biggr)+ g(t, y(t)),\] and the structure of this problem suggests to solve it by means of fixed point theory for operators of the form ``compact + contraction''.