Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 14 (2001), Issue 3, Pages 293-301
doi:10.1155/S1048953301000259
    
    
    Nonlinear essential maps of Mönch, 1-set contractive demicompact and monotone (S)+ type
    
    1National University of Singapore, Department of Mathematics, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore
2National University of Ireland, Department of Mathematics, Galway, Ireland
    
    
    
    Received 1 February 2000; Revised 1 June 2000
    	
    
       
    Copyright © 2001 Ravi P. Agarwal and Donal  O'Regan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
     
    
    
   
 
Abstract
In this paper the notion of an essential map is extended to a wider class of 
maps. Here we show if F is essential and F≅G, then G has a fixed 
point.