Positive fixed points for semipositone operators in ordered Banach spaces and applications (Q369923)

Let \(E\) be a real ordered Banach space with the norm \(\|\cdot \|\), \(P\) a cone of \(E\), and ``\(\leq \)'' the partial ordering defined by \(P\). The cone \(P\) is said to be normal if there exists a positive constant \(N\) such that \( 0 \leq x \leq y\) implies \(\|x\|\leq N\|y\|\) and is said to be minihedral if \(\sup\{x, y\}\) exists for each pair of elements \(x, y \in\{\mathbb E\}\). The authors study the existence of positive fixed points for semipositone operators in ordered Banach spaces. They also apply their results to Hammerstein integral equations of polynomial type.