Relative versions of the multivalued Lefschetz and Nielsen theorems and their application to admissible semi-flows (Q5929995)

The authors define a class of compact absorbing contractions \((p,q)\), where \(p: \Gamma\to X\) is a Vietoris map, \(q: \Gamma\to X\) a continuous map, \(X\) is an ANR, \(\Gamma\) a topological space, and then show that one can define a natural notion of the fixed point index \(\text{Ind}(X,W,(p,q))\) of the triple \((X,W,(p,q))\) (\(X\) is ANR, \(W\) an open set in \(X\), \((p,q)\) compact contraction) with standard properties of Excision, Contraction, and Normalization. This index allows the authors to formulate some analogues of relative Lefschetz and Nielsen fixed point theorems about the existence and lower estimates of coincidences of \((p,q)\). These relative theorems are applied to admissible semi-flows and differential inclusions for obtaining existence and multiplicity criteria of periodic trajectories.