Special Session 90: NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

On the Well-posedness of Problems with Fixed Point Structure
Pasquale Candito
University of Palermo
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Bruno Vassallo Mircea Sofonea
Abstract:
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two arbitrary sets, $P\subset X \times Y $ and $S: X \rightarrow Y$ . We consider the problem of finding an element $u \in X$ such that $(u, Su) \in P$. We prove that the existence of the solution to this problem is obtained, provided that an associated operator $\Lambda$ has a fixed point. Moreover, under an additional assumption, the solution is unique if and only if the fixed point is unique. Then, in the framework of metric spaces $X$ and $Y$, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of an arbitrary sequence $\{u_n\} \subset X$ to the solution $u$. We also show some applications of our results in the study of nonlinear boundary value problems for partial differential equations.