Cone expansion and cone compression fixed point theorems for sum of two operators and their applications

Abstract

In this article, we first establish a series of user-friendly versions of fixed point theorems in cones for sum of two operators with one being either contractive or expansive and the other being compact, one of which covers the classical Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem concerning cone expansion and compression of norm type. Along the way, we also offer some sufficient conditions which slightly relax the compactness requirement on the one summand operator. Second, as applications to some of our main results, we consider the eigenvalue problems of Krasnoselskii type in critical case and the existence of one positive solution to one parameter operator equations. Finally, to illustrate the usefulness and the applicability of our fixed point results, we study the existence of one nontrivial positive solution to certain integral equations of Hammerstein type and of perturbed Volterra type.