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A note on successive approximation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

D. D. Ang
Affiliation:
University of Saigon, Saigon, Viet-Nam.
D. E. Daykin
Affiliation:
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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A well-known theorem of Schauder asserts that a continuous self-map T of a closed convex subset K of a normed linear space X, such that the closure of T(K) is compact, has at least one fixed point. No general method is known for a computation of the fixed point(s) of T.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 1967

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