1. Introduction
Integral equations are involved in various scientific problems such as transport theory, the theory of radiative transfer, biomathematics, etc (see [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6]). The use of these equations dates back to 1730 with Bernoulli in the study of oscillatory problems. With the development of functional analysis, more general results were obtained by L. Schwartz, H. Poincaré, I. Fredholm, and others.
The problems of the existence of solutions for an integral equation can then be resolved by searching fixed points for nonlinear operators in a Banach algebra. For this, many researchers have been interested in the case where the Banach algebra is endowed with its strong topology; however, few of them were interested to the existence of a fixed point for mappings acting on a Banach algebra equipped with its weak topology [
7,
8,
9,
10,
11]; such a topology allows obtaining some generalizations of these results.
The history of fixed point theory in Banach algebra started in 1977 with R.W. Legget [
12], who considered the existence of solutions for the equation:
where
is a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra
X and
B is a compact operator from
into
Many authors [
10,
11,
13,
14] generalized Equation (
1) to the equation:
where
is a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra and
,
are nonlinear operators. Most of these authors have obtained the desired results through the study of the operator
This study was based mainly on the properties of operators A, B, C, and (cf. condensing, relatively weakly compact, etc.).
The study of nonlinear integral equations in Banach algebra via fixed point theory was in initiated by B.C. Dhage [
15]. In 2005, B.C. Dhage [
14] studied the existence of solutions for the equation:
The results were obtained in the case of the norm topology on Banach algebra. In 2014, Banas et al. [
8] proved some existence results of operator equations under the weak topology using the measure of weak noncompactness. In 2015, Ben Amar et al. used the De Blasi measure of non-compactness to obtain some generalizations of these results. In 2019, A.B. Amar et al. [
16] established new fixed point theorems for the sum of two mappings in Banach space and showed that the condition «weakly condensing»can by relaxed by the assumption «countably weakly condensing».
In this paper, we use the measure of noncompactness to prove some fixed point results for a nonlinear operator of type
in a Banach algebra. We note that the condition «relatively weakly compact », which is not easy to verify, is not required in most results in [
16]. Our results are formulated using the operator
under the weak topology in a Banach algebra.
As an application, we discuss the existence of solutions for an abstract nonlinear integral equation in the Banach algebra and an example of a nonlinear integral equation in the Banach algebra .
2. Preliminaries
Let be a Banach space with zero element . We denote respectively and the family of all nonempty subsets, nonempty and convex subsets, nonempty and bounded subsets, nonempty closed and convex subsets of X.
For any , we denote the closed ball of X centered at origin with radius . Moreover, we write and respectively to denote the strong convergence and the weak convergence of a sequence to x.
For a subset K of X, we write , , , and , to denote the closure, the weak closure, the convex hull, and the closed convex hull of the subset K, respectively; and by , the range of the operator T.
Definition 1. Let Ω be a nonempty subset of X. We say that a multivalued map has a weakly closed graph if the following property holds: if for every net , with such that and such that , , then ; here, .
We say that a map has a w-weakly closed graph in if it has a weakly closed graph in with respect to the weak topology.
Definition 2 ([
9])
. Let X be a Banach space. An operator is said to be weakly sequentially continuous on X if for every sequence with , we have . Note that T is weakly sequentially continuous if and only if is weakly sequentially continuous.
Definition 3. Let X be a Banach space. An operator is said to be weakly compact if is relatively weakly compact for every bounded subset .
Definition 4 ([
17])
. Let Ω be a nonempty weakly closed set of a Banach space X and a weakly sequentially continuous operator. T is said to be a weakly semi-closed operator at θ if the conditions , imply that there exists such that . We recall that a function is said to be a measure of weak noncompactness (MWNC) on X if it satisfies the following properties.
For any bounded subsets , of X, we have
, for all bounded subsets .
for all , .
if and only if is relatively weakly compact in X.
The MWNC is said to be:
Positive homogeneous, if , for all and .
Subadditive, if , for all .
As an example of MWNC, we have the De Blasi measure of weak noncompactness [
18], defined on
by:
it is well known that
is homogenous, subadditive, and satisfies the set additivity property:
For more properties of the MWNC, we refer to [
19].
Let us formulate some other definitions needed in this paper.
Definition 5. Let Ω be a subset of a Banach space ω be an MWNC on X, and . Let T be a mapping from Ω into we say that:
T is k-ω-contractive if for any bounded set ;
T is ω-condensing if for any bounded set with ;
T is countably k-ω-contractive, if for any countable bounded set ;
T is countably ω-condensing if for any countable bounded set with ;
T is weakly countable one-set-contractive if for any bounded set .
Clearly, every k--contractive is countably k--contractive, but the converse is not always true.
Definition 6. A mapping is said to be:
Lipschitzian with the Lipschitz constant : If , T is called nonexpansive, and if , T is called a contraction.
Pseudocontractive if for each , we have: Accretive if for each , we have: In addition, if for every , then T is called m-accretive.
Note that T is pseudocontractive if and only if is accretive.
Definition 7. An operator is called -Lipschitzian if there exists a continuous and nondecreasing function with such that: Sometimes, is called a -function of T on X. Moreover, if for all , then the operator T is called a nonlinear contraction with a contraction function .
Definition 8. An operator is said to be ψ-expansive if there exists a function such that , for any , ψ is either continuous or nondecreasing, and for all .
Definition 9. We say that is countably ω-condensing if is bounded on X and for all countable bounded subsets M of Ω with .
The following result is crucial:
Theorem 1 ([
20])
. Let X be a Banach space.- (i)
Let H be a bounded subset of . Then:where . - (ii)
Let be bounded and equicontinuous. Then:where .
Here, μ is the De Blasi measure of weak noncompactness.
Lemma 1 ([
21])
. Let X be a Banach space and a k-Lipschitzian map and weakly sequentially continuous. Then, for each bounded subset S of X, we have: here, μ is the De Blasi measure of weak noncompactness. We recall that an algebra
X is a vector space endowed with an internal composition law denoted by «·», which is associative and bilinear. A normed algebra is an algebra endowed with a norm
satisfying the following property:
A complete normed algebra is called a Banach algebra. For basic properties of Banach algebra, refer to [
22].
In general, the product of two weakly sequentially continuous mappings on a Banach algebra is not necessarily weakly sequentially continuous.
Definition 10 ([
9])
. We will say that the Banach algebra X satisfies condition if: Note that, every finite dimensional Banach algebra satisfies condition
. If
X satisfies condition
, then the space
of all continuous functions from a compact Hausdorff space
K into
X is also a Banach algebra satisfying condition
(see [
9]).
Definition 11. Let X be a Banach algebra. An operator is called regular on X if it maps X into the set of all invertible elements of X.
In [
16] (Theorem 3.1), Afif Ben Amar et al. proved the following result:
Theorem 2 ([
16], Theorem 3.1)
. Let Ω be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space X and ω be an MWNC on X. Assume that is a weakly sequentially continuous and countably ω-condensing mapping with a bounded range. Then, T has a fixed point. Theorem 3 ([
16], Theorem 3.3)
. Let Ω be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space X, ω be a positive homogeneous MWNC on X, and be weakly sequentially continuous, weakly countably one-set-contractive. In addition, assume that T is weakly semi-closed at θ with a bounded range. Then, T has a fixed point. Theorem 4 ([
16], Theorem 3.2)
. Let Ω be a nonempty convex closed subset of a Banach space E, be a weakly open subset of Ω with , and ω be a subadditive MWNC on E. Assume is a weakly sequentially continuous countably ω-condensing map with bounded. Then, either T has a fixed point or there exists and such that ( denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω
). The following lemma is useful for the sequel.
Lemma 2. Let X be a Banach algebra satisfying condition . Then, for any bounded subset M of X and relatively weakly compact subset K of X, we have .
3. Results
Our first main result is a new version of Theorem 3.2 proven by Jeribi et al. in [
23].
Theorem 5. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X, and exists on ,
- (ii)
B and are weakly sequentially continuous,
- (iii)
is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (iv)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (v)
implies .
Then, there exists such that , whenever .
Proof. Note that if and only if x is a fixed point for the operator
Let
; from Assumption
, there is a unique
such that:
then:
by Condition
, we have
, and then,
T is well defined on
By Theorem 2, it suffices to prove that the map T is weakly sequentially continuous and countably -condensing.
Let
be a sequence in
such that
the set
is relatively weakly compact; and since
B is weakly sequentially continuous, the set
is relatively weakly compact. Assume that
Since:
and
is countably
-
-contractive, we obtain:
which is absurd. It follows that
is weakly relatively compact; hence, there exists a subsequence
of
such that
for some
Moreover,
is weakly sequentially continuous; then,
is weakly sequentially continuous, and then:
As we have
and
we obtain:
which gives
, and therefore,
.
We claim that . Assume that there exists a subsequence of and a weak neighborhood of such that for all Since converge weakly to x, we may extract a subsequence of such that and which is absurd. Hence, it follows that T is weakly sequentially continuous.
T is countably
-condensing. Indeed, let
M be a countably subset of
with
; we have:
then
, which ends the proof. □
Corollary 1. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let and be two operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i)
exists on ,
- (ii)
B and are weakly sequentially continuous,
- (iii)
C is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (iv)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (v)
implies .
Then, there exists such that , whenever .
Remark 1. Note that Hypothesis in Theorem 5 may be replaced by “A, B, and C are weakly sequentially continuous”, but the Banach algebra X must satisfy condition .
In Theorem 5, we do not require the conditions “A satisfies condition ” and “ is relatively weakly compact”, but in Theorem 3.2 in [23], these conditions are necessary. In Theorem 5, Condition may be replaced by
A is regular on X and, A and C are nonlinear contractions on X with contraction functions and , respectively, and , for and .
In the following result, we will use the notion of -Lipschitzian operators.
Theorem 6. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X satisfying condition and ω a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and be three weakly sequentially continuous operators with the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X,
- (ii)
is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (iii)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (iv)
A and C are -Lipschitzian with the -function and , respectively, and for and ,
- (v)
implies .
Then, there exists such that , whenever .
Proof. Let and by .
For each
,
gives:
By the Boyd–Wong fixed point theorem ([
24]), the mapping
has a unique fixed point
Hence, the operator
is well defined; and by
we have
Let
be a sequence in
such that
as seen in the proof of Theorem 5, there exists a subsequence
of
such that
for some
Since:
and
, and
C are weakly sequentially continuous, we obtain:
Thus,
, and then,
. As above, we can prove that
and then,
T is weakly sequentially continuous. By Theorems 2 and 5,
T is countably
-condensing. □
Remark 2. Note that the hypothesis “A and C are weakly sequentially continuous” in Theorem 6 can be replaced by “ is weakly sequentially continuous”, and in this case, the condition is not required.
Theorem 7. Let Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X, and B is weakly sequentially continuous,
- (ii)
is ψ-expansive, accretive, and continuous,
- (iii)
is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (iv)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (v)
implies .
Then, there exists such that , whenever .
Proof. For
we define the mapping
by:
Since is continuous and accretive, is continuous and pseudocontractive, and is continuous and pseudocontractive.
Moreover, we have:
for all
, and
is
-expansive. Then,
is
-expansive, continuous, and accretive. It follows that
is
m-accretive (see [
25], Corollary 3.2). By [
26], Theorem 8, we deduce that
is surjective. Then, there exists an
such that
It follows that:
which implies
. We conclude by Theorem 5. □
In the following result, we present a nonlinear alternative of the Leary–Schauder type in Banach algebra.
Theorem 8. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X, U be a weakly open subset of Ω with , and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X, and exists on ,
- (ii)
B and are weakly sequentially continuous,
- (iii)
is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (iv)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (v)
implies .
Then, either:
- (i)
there exists such that , or
- (ii)
there exists and such that ,
where denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω and .
Proof. Let Condition implies , and T is weakly sequentially continuous and countably -condensing. Theorem 4 implies that T has a fixed point in U, or there exists and such that , then either there exists such that , or there exists and such that . □
Corollary 2. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X, U be a weakly open subset of Ω with , and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let and be two operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i)
exists on ,
- (ii)
B and are weakly sequentially continuous,
- (iii)
C is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (iv)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (v)
implies .
Then,
- (i)
either there exists such that , or
- (ii)
there exists and such that ,
where denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω, and .
Remark 3. In Theorem 8, Condition may be replaced by
is ψ-expansive and for all .
Theorem 9. Let Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of a Banach algebra X, U be a weakly open subset of Ω with and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X,
- (ii)
B and are weakly sequentially continuous,
- (iii)
is ψ-expansive, accretive, and continuous,
- (iv)
is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (v)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (vi)
implies .
Then, either:
- (i)
there exists such that , or
- (ii)
there exists and such that .
where denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω, and .
Proof. Define by . As seen in the proof of Theorem 7, the operator T is well defined; moreover, T is weakly sequentially continuous and countably -condensing, and by we have ; we conclude by Theorem 4. □
Remark 4. If we take A is the unit element in the Banach algebra X, we obtain Theorem 3.9 in [16]. In the following result, the operator is not invertible.
Theorem 10. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular,
- (ii)
is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (iii)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (iv)
for every net , , if , , then, and ,
- (v)
for every net , , if , , then there exists a weakly convergent subset of ,
- (vi)
is convex, for all ;
- (vii)
for all and implies .
Then, there exists such that , whenever .
Proof. By
, the multivalued mapping:
is well defined.
Step 1. H has a -weakly closed graph in .
Let and be nets in such that and
Since
, we obtain
and
it follows that
and then
which gives:
then,
, and
H has a
-weakly closed graph.
Step 2. By Step 1, is closed, for all , and by
Step 3. H maps weakly compact sets into relatively weakly compact sets.
Let
K be a weakly compact set in
, and let
be a sequence in
choose
in
K such that
for all
and
a subsequence of
such that
By
, and
implies that
has a weakly convergent subsequence. Then, by the Eberlein–Šmulian theorem [
27],
is relatively weakly compact.
Step 4. H is countably -condensing.
Let
M be a countable subset of
with
; we have:
then, for all
we have:
hence:
consequently:
then:
and:
It follows that and then, H is countably -condensing.
By Theorem 3.18 in [
16], we conclude that
H has a fixed point in
. □
The following result requires the condition “relatively weakly compact” and where .
Theorem 11. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a positive homogenous MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X, and exists on ,
- (ii)
B and are weakly sequentially continuous,
- (iii)
is relatively weakly compact,
- (iv)
B is countably β-ω-contractive,
- (v)
If is a sequence in Ω such that , then has a weakly convergent subsequence,
- (vi)
is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω,
- (vii)
implies .
Then, there exists such that , whenever .
Proof. Let
, and consider:
by
and
, it is clear that
T is well defined.
We will show that T satisfies the conditions of Theorem 3. From the proof of Theorem 5, we can see that T is weakly sequentially continuous, and then, it suffices to prove that T is weakly countably one-set-contractive and semi-closed at .
Let
M be a countably subset of
; we have:
then:
and so:
therefore,
T is weakly countably one-set-contractive.
Now, let
be a sequence in
such that
.
By there exists a subsequence of such that and then, By , we conclude that there exists a subsequence of , which converges to some element Since and T is weakly sequentially continuous, we obtain , and then, T is weakly semi-closed at . □
Let
be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a Banach algebra
X, and let
, and
be three operators. For any
, we set (see [
28]):
If and , we obtain .
Theorem 12. Let X be a Banach algebra satisfying condition and Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of X; ω is an MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X, and B is weakly sequentially continuous,
- (ii)
is a contraction on Ω,
- (iii)
, for any countably subset D of Ω with ,
- (iv)
,
- (v)
If , then and have weakly convergent subsequences (converging respectively to y and z), and if , we have and .
Then, there exists such that .
Proof. For
we define the mapping:
implies that
is a contraction; then,
has a unique fixed point
we have
or equivalently
which shows that
It follows that
.
Let
M be a countable subset of
such that
we have:
Hence, then, is countably -condensing.
Moreover,
is weakly sequentially continuous. Indeed, let
be a sequence in
such that
since
B is weakly sequentially continuous, we have
, and since
, there exists a subsequence
and
of
such that
and
It follows that:
With , we obtain and and then,
The uniqueness of the fixed point implies that and therefore, . We claim that For this, assume that there exists a weak neighborhood V of and a subsequence of such that for all Since we can extract a subsequence of such that . This is not possible, since for all . We conclude that is weakly sequentially continuous. By Theorem 2, there exists such that . □
If
in Theorem 12, we obtain Theorem 3.11 in [
16].
Theorem 13. Let Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of a Banach algebra X; ω is an MWNC on X. Let , and be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i)
A is regular on X, and is one-to-one,
- (ii)
is nonexpansive,
- (iii)
B and are weakly sequentially continuous,
- (iv)
, for any countably subset D of Ω with ,
- (v)
for all ,
- (vi)
If such that is weakly convergent, then the sequence has a weakly convergent subsequence.
Then, there exists such that .
Proof. Let
, and define
by:
By
is nonexpansive, and by
, we have
Then, by ([
29], Theorem 2.15), there exists a sequence
in
such that
, and then,
Using
we can extract a subsequence
of
such that
, and then,
then:
which implies
.
Define
by
Let
and
the equality
implies that
then:
for any subset
D of
.
The assumption implies that T is countably -condensing. Moreover, T is weakly sequentially continuous. Indeed, let be a sequence such that ; we have then, By , there exists a subsequence such that ; thus, which leads to , and so, . As in the proof of Theorem 5, we can prove that , and we apply Theorem 2 to end the proof. □
Remark 5. If we take in Theorem 13, we obtain Theorem 3.13 in [16]. 5. Example
Consider the Banach algebra
of all continuous real-valued functions on
, with norm
. In this case,
, and
E is a Banach algebra satisfying condition
and reflexive. Let
be a continuous and nonnegative function such that
. We consider the following nonlinear integral equation:
To show that (
3) has a solution in
we will verify that all conditions of Theorem 14 are satisfied.
Define
, by
(in this case
). For all
, the function
is continuous (then weakly sequentially continuous, because
), and for all
, the function
is continuous. Now, let
and
; we have:
where the function
is continuous with bound
.
Next, we introduce the function
such that
for all
. As seen in Step 2 in the proof of Theorem 14, the operator
T is weakly sequentially continuous, regular on
E, and
is well defined on
E. Let
and
; we have:
thus,
, where
.
Moreover,
is weakly compact on
indeed, let
, and let
such that
. Without loss of generality, we may assume that
. Using the Hahn–Banach theorem, we deduce that there exists
such that
and
, hence,
then
is weakly equicontinuous. Now, let
be a sequence in
E, and fix
; we have:
therefore,
is weakly equi-bounded. Let
; since
is reflexive, then by [
33], the set
is weakly relatively sequentially compact. The Arzela–Ascoli theorem implies that there exists a subsequence
such that
then,
is relatively weakly compact. Therefore,
is weakly compact.
Let
and
; we have:
where
is continuous with bound
.
Finally, we define
, by
For each
, the function
is weakly measurable on
, and for almost every
, the function
is continuous (then weakly sequentially continuous). Furthermore, we have:
where
and
for all
since
for all
.
Moreover, if
W is a countably bounded subset of
X, we have:
Then:
We set , such that ; we have that q is continuous and
If we take , we get and (then, for all , where and ).
Now, we have and , then , and .
Theorem 14 proves the existence of a solution to Equation (
3).