The existence of fixed points via the measure of noncompactness and its application to functional-integral equations (Q277027)

In this paper, a generalization of the well-known Darbo fixed point theorem (for measures of noncompactness, introduced by K. Kuratowski) is presented. Moreover, this theorem is applied to obtain the existence of solutions of a functional-integral equation (assumptions and proof are long and sophisticated). Note that in the paper there are some misprints (see Definition 2.1; Theorem 2.3; Theorem 2.6). Also the statement: ``Darbo's fixed-point theorem\dots includes the existence part of Banach's fixed-point theorems'' is not quite true. In Theorem 2.6, one considers the \(n\)th iterates of a function \(\psi\) (not a power) and it is enough to postulate the condition concerning the limit of iterates only for \(t\) greater than zero. The paper is interesting also for people working in integral equations.