The aftermath of the intermediate value theorem.
We study a coincidence problem of the form A(x) ∈ ϕ (x), where A is a linear Fredholm operator with nonnegative index between Banach spaces and ϕ is a multivalued A-fundamentally contractible map (in particular, it is not necessarily compact). The main tool is a coincidence index, which becomes the well known Leray-Schauder fixed point index when A=id and ϕ is a compact singlevalued map. An application to boundary value problems for differential equations in Banach spaces is given.
The existence of bounded solutions for equations x' = A(t)x + r(x,t) is proved, where the linear part is exponentially dichotomic and the nonlinear term r satisfies some weak conditions.
The existence of solutions is studied for certain nonlinear differential equations with both linear and nonlinear conditions
Three methods for the study of the solvability of semilinear equations with noninvertible linear parts are compared: the alternative method, the continuation method of Mawhin and a new perturbation method [22]-[27]. Some extension of the last method and applications to differential equations in Banach spaces are presented.