Operator and differential equations in ordered spaces (Q1295882)

The authors develop a generalized iteration method for operator equations of the form \(Lu=Nu\) where \(L:D(L)\rightarrow X\) and \(N:D(N)\rightarrow X\) are arbitrary mappings from sets \(D(L)\) and \(D(N)\) with non empty intersection to a partially ordered set \(X\). No algebraic or topological structure is assumed, hence the results are applicable to problems of discontinuous and implicit type. The existence of extremal solutions and the dependence on data is studied as well. Applications are given to initial and boundary value problems for implicit Carathéodory type ordinary and partial differential equations.