A new topological degree theory for densely defined quasibounded(S˜+)-perturbations of multivalued maximal monotone operators in reflexive Banach spaces
LetXbe an infinite-dimensional real reflexive Banach space with dual spaceX∗andG⊂Xopen and bounded. Assume thatXandX∗are locally uniformly convex. LetT:X⊃D(T)→2X∗be maximal monotone andC:X⊃D(C)→X∗quasibounded and of type(S˜+). Assume thatL⊂D(C), whereLis a dense subspace ofX, and0∈T(0). A new topological degree theory is introduced for the sumT+C. Browder's degree theory has thus been extended to densely defined perturbations of maximal monotone operators while results of Browder and Hess have been extended to various classes of single-valued densely defined generalized pseudomonotone perturbationsC. Although the main results are of theoretical nature, possible applications of the new degree theory are given for several other theoretical problems in nonlinear functional analysis.