Hybrid fixed point theory for strictly monotone increasing multi-valued mappings with applications (Q2459623)

Let \(X\) be an ordered Banach space and \([a,b]\) denote the order interval in \(X\), where \(a,b\in X\), \(a\leq b\), and let \(\mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{cp}}\) denote the class of all compact subsets of \(X\). In this paper, the author obtains the following general fixed point theorem for increasing multi-valued mappings in \(X\). Theorem. Let \(T: [a,b]\to \mathcal{P}_{\mathrm{cp}}\) be a multivalued mapping satisfying the following conditions. (a) The multivalued mapping \(x\mapsto T(x,y)\) is upper semicontinuous, condensing and strictly monotone increasing uniformly for \(y\in [a,b]\). (b) The multivalued mapping \(y\mapsto T(x,y)\) is strictly monotone increasing for each \(x\in [a,b]\). (c) Every monotone sequence \(\{z_n\}\subset\cup T([a,\,b]\times [a,b])\), defined by \(z_n\in T(x,y_n)\), converges for each \(x\in [a,b]\) whenever \(\{y_n\}\) is a monotone sequence in \([a,b]\). Then the inclusion \(x\in T(x,x)\) has the least and the greatest solution in \([a,b]\). From this theorem, the author deduces several fixed point theorems involving the sum of three multivalued operators. These new fixed point theorems include and extend some of the author's previous results. Further, the author applies his new fixed point theorems to perturbed nonconvex differential inclusions and obtains the existence results of the extremal solutions under mixed Lipschitz, compactness and strict monotonic conditions.