Coincidence theory and maps with an inclusion property

Donal O’Regan

doi:10.56754/0719-0646.2803.545

Authors

Donal O’Regan School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4096-1469

MSC:

47H10, 54H25

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56754/0719-0646.2803.545

Keywords:

Coincidence points, fixed points, set-valued maps

Abstract

In this paper we consider a class of maps (whose convex hull has a nice selection property) with another general class of maps and we present coincidence results between these two classes.

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