Let V be an orthogonal representation of a compact Lie group G and let S(V),D(V) be the unit sphere and disc of V, respectively. If F: V → ℝ is a G-invariant C¹-map then the G-equivariant gradient C⁰-map ∇F: V → V is said to be admissible provided that ${\left(\nabla F\right)}^{-1}\left(0\right)\cap S\left(V\right)=\varnothing$. We classify the homotopy classes of admissible G-equivariant gradient maps ∇F: (D(V),S(V)) → (V,V∖0).

Using the cone theory and the lattice structure, we establish some methods of computation of the topological degree for the nonlinear operators which are not assumed to be cone mappings. As applications, existence results of nontrivial solutions for singular Sturm-Liouville problems are given. The nonlinearity in the equations can take negative values and may be unbounded from below.

We study a controllability problem for a system governed by a semilinear functional differential inclusion in a Banach space in the presence of impulse effects and delay. Assuming a regularity of the multivalued non-linearity in terms of the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness we do not require the compactness of the evolution operator generated by the linear part of inclusion. We find existence results for mild solutions of this problem under various growth conditions on the nonlinear part and...

A couple ($\sigma ,\tau$) of lower and upper slopes for the resonant second order boundary value problem $$x^{\text{'}\text{'}}=f(t,x,x^{\text{'}}),x\left(0\right)=0,x^{\text{'}}\left(1\right)={\int }_0^1{x}^{\text{'}}\left(s\right)\mathrm{d}g\left(s\right),$$ with $g$ increasing on $[0,1]$ such that ${\int }_0^{1}dg=1$, is a couple of functions $\sigma ,\tau \in C^1\left([0,1]\right)$ such that $\sigma \left(t\right)\le \tau \left(t\right)$ for all $t\in [0,1]$, $$\begin{array}{c}{\sigma }^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)\ge f(t,x,\sigma \left(t\right)),\sigma \left(1\right)\le {\int }_0^1\sigma \left(s\right)\mathrm{d}g\left(s\right),\\ {\tau }^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)\le f(t,x,\tau \left(t\right)),\tau \left(1\right)\ge {\int }_0^1\tau \left(s\right)\mathrm{d}g\left(s\right),\end{array}$$ in the stripe ${\int }_0^t\sigma \left(s\right)\mathrm{d}s\le x\le {\int }_0^t\tau \left(s\right)\mathrm{d}s$ and $t\in [0,1]$. It is proved that the existence of such a couple $(\sigma ,\tau )$ implies the existence and localization of a solution to the boundary value problem. Multiplicity results are also obtained.