Extension of the Leray-Schauder degree for abstract Hammerstein type mappings (Q870104)

A new extension of the classical Leray-Schauder topological degree in a real separable reflexive Banach space is introduced. The new class of mappings for which the degree is constructed is obtained essentially by replacing the compact perturbation by a composition of mappings of monotone type. Applications of the new degree to the solvability of abstract Hammerstein type equations and to variational inequalities are briefly considered.