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The objective of Leray–Schauder degree theory is the same as that of the fixed point theory of the first part of the book. We want to demonstrate that if certain hypotheses are satisfied, then we can conclude that a map f has a fixed point, that is, that f(x) = x.
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Brown, R.F. (2014). Leray–Schauder Degree. In: A Topological Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11794-2_10
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