A bifurcation of solutions of nonlinear Fredholm inclusions involving \(CJ\)-multimaps with applications to feedback control systems (Q491226)

The authors prove the global bifurcation theorem for the coincidence problem \(f(x)\in G(x,\mu)\), where \(f\) is a nonlinear Fredholm operator of index \(0\), \(\mu \in \mathbb{R}\) is a parameter and \(G\) is a so-called \(CJ\)-multimap (i.e., a composition of a multimap with aspheric values and a singlevalued continuous map). The main topological tool is the bifurcation index defined in a classical way as a coincidence index of a modified problem. They also consider a feedback control system of the form \[ \left\{\begin{matrix} A(t,x(t),x'(t))=B(t,x(t),y(t)) &\text{ for } t\in [0,1],\\ y'(t)\in C(t,x(t),y(t)) & \text{ for a.e. } t\in [0,1],\\ x(0)=x(1), & \\ y(0)=y_0, & \end{matrix}\right. \] assuming that there exists a respective guiding function with nontrivial index. A number of technical assumptions allow to define a corresponding coincidence problem with a Fredholm map \(f:C^1([0,1])\to C([0,1])\) given by \(f(x)=A(\cdot ,x(\cdot), x'(\cdot))\). The properties (especially the homotopy ones) of appropriate topological invariants lead to existence and bifurcation results.