A generalization of the cone expansion and compression fixed point theorem and applications (Q880320)

The well-known Guo-Krasnosel'skij fixed point theorem of cone compression and expansion of norm type is extended, in replacing the norm by a convex functional, as follows. Theorem. Let \(E\) be a Banach space and \(P\subset E\) be a closed convex cone. Assume that \(\Omega_1\) and \(\Omega_2\) are bounded open subsets with \(0\in \Omega_1\), \(\overline{\Omega}_1\subset \Omega_2\). Let \(A:P\cap(\overline{\Omega}_2\setminus \Omega_1)\to P\) be a completely continuous mapping and \(\rho:P\to [0,\infty)\) be a uniformly continuous convex functional with \(\rho(0)=0\) and \(\rho(x)>0\) for \(x\neq 0\). If either condition of the following is satisfied: (i) \(\rho(Au)\leq \rho(u)\) for \(u\in P\cap\partial \Omega_1\), \(\rho(Au)\geq \rho(u)\) for \(u\in P\cap\partial \Omega_2\) and \(\inf_{u\in P\cap\partial \Omega_2}\rho(x)>0\); (ii) \(\rho(Au)\geq \rho(u)\) for \(u\in P\cap\partial \Omega_1\) and \(\inf_{u\in P\cap\partial \Omega_1}\rho(x)>0\), \(\rho(Au)\leq \rho(u)\) for \(u\in P\cap\partial \Omega_2\), then \(A\) has a fixed point in \(P\cap(\overline{\Omega}_2\setminus \Omega_1)\). An application to the existence of positive solutions for second-order multipoint boundary value problems is given.