mappings, best approximation method and related to the study on some key aspects of nonlinear analysis related to
Birkhoff-Kellogg problems, nonlinear alternative, Leray - Schauder alternative, KKM principle, best approximation,
and related topics, readers can find some most important contributions by Birkhoff and Kellogg [11] in 1920’s, Leray
and Schauder [65] in 1934’s, Fan [35] in 1969; plus the related comprehensive references given by Agarwal et al.[1],
Bernstein [9], Chang et al.[22], Granas and Dugundji [46], Isac [52], Park [87], Singh et al.[111], Zeidler [135]; and
also see work contributed by Agarwal and O’Regan [2]-[3], Furi and Pera [37], Park [87], O’Regan [81], O’Regan
and Precup [82]), Poincare [96], Rothe [104]-[103], Yuan [132]-[134], Zeidler [135].
It is well-known that the best approximation is one of very important aspects for the study of nonlinear problems
related to the problems on their solvability for partial differential equations, dynamic systems, optimization, math-
ematical program, operation research; and in particularly, the one approach well accepted for study of nonlinear
problems in optimization, complementarity problems and of variational inequalities problems and so on, strongly
based on today called Fan’s best approximation theorem given by Fan [33]-[36] in 1969 which acts as a very powerful
tool in nonlinear analysis, and see the book of Singh et al.[111] for the related discussion and study on the fixed point
theory and best approximation with the KKM-map principle), among them, the related tools are Rothe type and
principle of Leray-Schauder alterative in topological vector spaces (TVS), and local topological vector spaces (LCS)50
which are comprehensively studied by Chang et al.[22], Chang et al.[25]-[23], Carbone and Conti [18], Ennassik and
Taoudi [31], Ennassik et al.[32], Isac [52], Granas and Dugundji [46], Kirk and Shahzad [58], Liu [70], Park [90],
Rothe [104]-[103], Shahzad [109]-[108], Xu [126], Yuan [132]-[134], Zeidler [135], and references therein.
On the other hand, since the celebrated so-called KKM principle established in 1929 in [60], was based on the
celebrated Sperner combinatorial lemma and first applied to a simple proof of the Brouwer fixed point theorem.
Later it became clear that these three theorems are mutually equivalent and they were regarded as a sort of
mathematical trinity (Park [90]). Since Fan extended the classical KKM theorem to infinite-dimensional spaces in
1961 by Fan [34]-[36], there have been a number of generalizations and applications in numerous areas of nonlinear
analysis, and fixed points in TVS and LCS as developed by Browder [12]-[17] and related references therein. Among
them, Schauder’s fixed point theorem [112] in normed spaces is one of the powerful tools in dealing with nonlinear
problems in analysis. Most notably, it has played a major role in the development of fixed point theory and related
nonlinear analysis and mathematical theory of partial and differential equations and others. A generalization of
Schauder’s theorem from normed space to general topological vector spaces is an old conjecture in fixed point theory
which is explained by the Problem 54 of the book “The Scottish Book” by Mauldin [74] as stated as Schauder’s
conjecture: “Every nonempty compact convex set in a topological vector space has the fixed point property, or
in its analytic statement, does a continuous function defined on a compact convex subset of a topological vector
space to itself have a fixed point?” Recently, this question has been recently answered by the work of Ennassik and
Taoudi [31] by using p-seminorm methods under locally p-convex spaces! See also related work in this direction
given by Askoura and Godet-Thobie [5], Cauty [19]-[20], Chang [21], Chang et al.[22], Chen [26], Dobrowolski [30],
Gholizadeh et al.[39], G´orniewicz [44], G´orniewicz et al.[45], Isac [52], Li [68], Li et al.[67], Liu [70], Nhu [76], Okon
[78], Park [89]-[91], Reich [99], Smart [114], Weber [121]-[120], Xiao and Lu [122], Xiao and Zhu [124]-[123], Xu
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