Oriented degree of Fredholm maps: finite-dimensional reduction method (Q895064)

The paper contains a complete and detailed description of the oriented degree of zero-index Fredholm maps and their compact single-valued perturbations. The authors carefully introduce all needed notions and facts (in particular, a brief theory of linear Fredholm maps, Fredholm structures on manifolds, the concept of their orientation; also, in three appendices: notions of general and differential topology and of function spaces), all steps of the construction with detailed considerations concerning properties of the degree in each step (the finite-dimensional method is used), and examples of applications in linear and nonlinear (elliptic) differential equations.