This book addresses fixed point theory, a fascinating and far-reaching field with applications in several areas of mathematics. The content is divided into two main parts. The first, which is more theoretical, develops the main abstract theorems on the existence and uniqueness of fixed points of maps. In turn, the second part focuses on applications, covering a large variety of significant results ranging from ordinary differential equations in Banach spaces, to partial differential equations, operator theory, functional analysis, measure theory, and game theory. A final section containing 50 problems, many of which include helpful hints, rounds out the coverage. Intended for Master's and PhD students in Mathematics or, more generally, mathematically oriented subjects, the book is designed to be largely self-contained, although some mathematical background is needed: readers should be familiar with measure theory, Banach and Hilbert spaces, locally convex topological vector spaces and, in general, with linear functional analysis.

Employs a unitary approach to explore a key field of modern mathematics Discusses all relevant applications of the theory of fixed points in detail Although it covers advanced topics, is highly user friendly The only book of its kind in the current literature

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Vittorino Pata completed his PhD in Pure Mathematics at Indiana University, USA in December 1994. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research interests touch several areas of pure and applied mathematics, including ordinary and partial differential equations (with particular emphasis on the asymptotic behavior of solutions), infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, real and functional analysis, operator theory, and noncommutative probability.

Inhalt
1 The Banach contraction principle 7.- 2 The Boyd-Wongtheorem 13.- 3 Further extensions of the contraction principle 16.- 4 Weak contractions 23.- 5 Contractions of -type 29.- 6 Sequences of maps and xed points 36.- 7 Fixed points of non-expansive maps 39.- 8 The Riesz mean ergodic theorem 42.- 9 The Brouwer xed point theorem 46.- 10 The Schauder-Tychono xed point theorem 50.- 11 Further consequences of the Schauder-Tychono theorem 55.- 12 TheMarkov-Kakutani theorem 60.- 13 TheKakutani-Ky Fan theorem 62.- 14 The implicit function theorem 70.- 15 Location of zeros 75.- 16 Ordinary dierential equations in Banach spaces 78.- 17 The Lax-Milgram lemma 89.- 18 An abstract elliptic problem 97.- 19 Semilinear evolution equations 101.- 20 An abstract parabolic problem 108.- 21 The invariant subspace problem 114.- 22 Measure preserving maps on compact Hausdor spaces 118.- 23 Invariant means on semigroups 120.- 24 Haar measures 123.- 25 Game theory 130.- 26 Problems.