Positive Fixed Points for Semipositone Operators in Ordered Banach Spaces and Applications
Author(s) -
Zengqin Zhao,
Xinsheng Du
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
abstract and applied analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.228
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1687-0409
pISSN - 1085-3375
DOI - 10.1155/2013/406727
Subject(s) - mathematics , fixed point theorem , banach space , fixed point index , fixed point , polynomial , pure mathematics , mathematical analysis , operator (biology) , nonlinear system , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , repressor , quantum mechanics , transcription factor , gene , boundary value problem
The theory of semipositone integral equations and semipositone ordinary differential equations has been emerging as an important area of investigation in recent years, but the research on semipositone operators in abstract spaces is yet rare. By employing a well-known fixed point index theorem and combining it with a translation substitution, we study the existence of positive fixed points for a semipositone operator in ordered Banach space. Lastly, we apply the results to Hammerstein integral equations of polynomial type
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