Degree for weakly upper semicontinuous perturbations of quasi-$m$-accretive operators

Abstract

In the paper we provide the construction of a coincidence degree being a homotopy invariant detecting the existence of solutions of equations or inclusions of the form $Ax\in F(x)$, $x\in U$, where $A:D(A)⊸E$ is an $m$-accretive operator in a Banach space $E$, $F:K⊸E$ is a weakly upper semicontinuous set-valued map constrained to an open subset $U$ of a closed set $K\subset E$. Two different approaches will be presented. The theory is applied to show the existence of nontrivial positive solutions of some nonlinear second order partial differential equations with discontinuities.