An extension of Leray-Schauder degree and applications to nonlinear wave equations (Q757810)

The authors construct a topological degree for some classes of monotone mappings which contains \textit{F. E. Browder}'s degree [Degree theory for nonlinear mappings, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 45, Pt. 1, Am. Math. Soc., 203-226 (1986; Zbl 0601.47050)] as a special case. The construction builds on both properties of monotone operators and the classical Leray- Schauder degree, and allows very successful applications to the periodic Dirichlet problem for the semilinear wave equation \[ u_{tt}(t,x)- u_{xx}(t,x)+g(t,x,u(t,x))=h(t,x). \]