NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS TO OPERATOR EQUATIONS

Recently, H.Z.Ming [7] obtained a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a solution to a general operator equation. In the present paper, we obtain such conditions in general forms and give some examples. We begin with the well-known Fan-Browder fixed point theorem, from which we deduce two general theorems on such necessary and sufficient conditiions. We give some examples of such conditions, which are improved versions of fixed point theorems of Halpern-Bergman [5], Ky Fan [3], [4], Kaczynski [6], Reich [9], Schauder [10], Tychonoff [11], and Ming [7]. In fact, we restate Ming's result in its correct form. The following is known as the Fan-Browder fixed point theorem [1], [2].