ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
On the Schauder fixed point theorem
Authors 1, 1
Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Nicholas Copernicus University, ul. Chopina 12/18, Toruń, Poland
Abstract
The paper contains a survey of various results concerning the Schauder Fixed Point Theorem for metric spaces both in single-valued and multi-valued cases. A number of open problems is formulated.
Keywords
absolute retract, set-valued operators, degree, fixed point
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