Fixed points for weakly inward mappings in Banach spaces (Q2491696)

This interesting paper is devoted to the study of fixed point theorems in cones for completely continuous and weakly inward mappings. The authors obtain several boundary conditions under which the fixed point index for the completely continuous and weakly inward operator equals either 1 or 0. Their results extend many well-known fixed point theorems (Leray--Schauder's theorem, Altman's theorem, Petryshyn's theorem) to the case of weakly inward mappings. It is worth noting that weakly inward mappings were originally studied by \textit{B.~R.\ Halpern} and \textit{G.~M.\ Bergman} [Trans.\ Am.\ Math.\ Soc.\ 130, 353--358 (1968; Zbl 0153.45602)]. Moreover, fixed point theorems in cones for continuous condensing and weakly inward mappings were obtained by \textit{T.~C.\ Lin} [Proc.\ Am.\ Math.\ Soc.\ 102, 502--506 (1988; Zbl 0653.47033)].