1. Introduction
Integral equations are involved in various scientific problems such as transport theory, the theory of radiative transfer, biomathematics, etc (see [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6]). The use of these equations dates back to 1730 with Bernoulli in the study of oscillatory problems. With the development of functional analysis, more general results were obtained by L. Schwartz, H. Poincaré, I. Fredholm, and others.
The problems of the existence of solutions for an integral equation can then be resolved by searching fixed points for nonlinear operators in a Banach algebra. For this, many researchers have been interested in the case where the Banach algebra is endowed with its strong topology; however, few of them were interested to the existence of a fixed point for mappings acting on a Banach algebra equipped with its weak topology [
7,
8,
9,
10,
11]; such a topology allows obtaining some generalizations of these results.
The history of fixed point theory in Banach algebra started in 1977 with R.W. Legget [
12], who considered the existence of solutions for the equation:
 where 
 is a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra 
X and 
B is a compact operator from 
 into 
 Many authors [
10,
11,
13,
14] generalized Equation (
1) to the equation:
 where 
 is a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra and 
, 
 are nonlinear operators. Most of these authors have obtained the desired results through the study of the operator 
This study was based mainly on the properties of operators A, B, C, and  (cf. condensing, relatively weakly compact, etc.).
The study of nonlinear integral equations in Banach algebra via fixed point theory was in initiated by B.C. Dhage [
15]. In 2005, B.C. Dhage [
14] studied the existence of solutions for the equation:
The results were obtained in the case of the norm topology on Banach algebra. In 2014, Banas et al. [
8] proved some existence results of operator equations under the weak topology using the measure of weak noncompactness. In 2015, Ben Amar et al. used the De Blasi measure of non-compactness to obtain some generalizations of these results. In 2019, A.B. Amar et al. [
16] established new fixed point theorems for the sum of two mappings in Banach space and showed that the condition «weakly condensing»can by relaxed by the assumption «countably weakly condensing».
In this paper, we use the measure of noncompactness to prove some fixed point results for a nonlinear operator of type 
 in a Banach algebra. We note that the condition «relatively weakly compact », which is not easy to verify, is not required in most results in [
16]. Our results are formulated using the operator 
 under the weak topology in a Banach algebra.
As an application, we discuss the existence of solutions for an abstract nonlinear integral equation in the Banach algebra  and an example of a nonlinear integral equation in the Banach algebra .
  2. Preliminaries
Let  be a Banach space with zero element . We denote respectively   and  the family of all nonempty subsets, nonempty and convex subsets, nonempty and bounded subsets, nonempty closed and convex subsets of X.
For any , we denote  the closed ball of X centered at origin with radius . Moreover, we write  and  respectively to denote the strong convergence and the weak convergence of a sequence  to x.
For a subset K of X, we write , , , and , to denote the closure, the weak closure, the convex hull, and the closed convex hull of the subset K, respectively; and by , the range of the operator T.
Definition 1. Let Ω be a nonempty subset of X. We say that a multivalued map  has a weakly closed graph if the following property holds: if for every net , with  such that  and  such that , , then ; here, .
 We say that a map  has a w-weakly closed graph in  if it has a weakly closed graph in  with respect to the weak topology.
Definition 2 ([
9])
. Let X be a Banach space. An operator  is said to be weakly sequentially continuous on X if for every sequence  with , we have . Note that T is weakly sequentially continuous if and only if  is weakly sequentially continuous.
Definition 3. Let X be a Banach space. An operator  is said to be weakly compact if  is relatively weakly compact for every bounded subset .
 Definition 4 ([
17])
. Let Ω be a nonempty weakly closed set of a Banach space X and  a weakly sequentially continuous operator. T is said to be a weakly semi-closed operator at θ if the conditions ,  imply that there exists  such that . We recall that a function  is said to be a measure of weak noncompactness (MWNC) on X if it satisfies the following properties.
- For any bounded subsets ,  of X, we have  
- , for all bounded subsets . 
-  for all , . 
-  if and only if  is relatively weakly compact in X. 
The MWNC  is said to be:
- Positive homogeneous, if , for all  and . 
- Subadditive, if , for all . 
As an example of MWNC, we have the De Blasi measure of weak noncompactness [
18], defined on 
 by:
 it is well known that 
 is homogenous, subadditive, and satisfies the set additivity property:
For more properties of the MWNC, we refer to [
19].
Let us formulate some other definitions needed in this paper.
Definition 5. Let Ω be a subset of a Banach space  ω be an MWNC on X, and . Let T be a mapping from Ω into  we say that:
- T is k-ω-contractive if  for any bounded set ; 
- T is ω-condensing if  for any bounded set  with ; 
- T is countably k-ω-contractive, if  for any countable bounded set ; 
- T is countably ω-condensing if  for any countable bounded set  with ; 
- T is weakly countable one-set-contractive if  for any bounded set . 
 Clearly, every k--contractive is countably k--contractive, but the converse is not always true.
Definition 6. A mapping  is said to be:
- Lipschitzian with the Lipschitz constant : - If , T is called nonexpansive, and if , T is called a contraction. 
- Pseudocontractive if for each , we have: 
- Accretive if for each , we have: - In addition, if  for every , then T is called m-accretive. 
 Note that T is pseudocontractive if and only if  is accretive.
Definition 7. An operator  is called -Lipschitzian if there exists a continuous and nondecreasing function  with  such that: Sometimes,  is called a -function of T on X. Moreover, if  for all , then the operator T is called a nonlinear contraction with a contraction function .
 Definition 8. An operator  is said to be ψ-expansive if there exists a function  such that ,  for any , ψ is either continuous or nondecreasing, and  for all .
 Definition 9. We say that  is countably ω-condensing if  is bounded on X and  for all countable bounded subsets M of Ω with .
 The following result is crucial:
Theorem 1 ([
20])
. Let X be a Banach space.- (i) 
- Let H be a bounded subset of . Then:where . 
- (ii) 
- Let  be bounded and equicontinuous. Then:where . 
Here, μ is the De Blasi measure of weak noncompactness.
 Lemma 1 ([
21])
. Let X be a Banach space and  a k-Lipschitzian map and weakly sequentially continuous. Then, for each bounded subset S of X, we have: here, μ is the De Blasi measure of weak noncompactness. We recall that an algebra 
X is a vector space endowed with an internal composition law denoted by «·», which is associative and bilinear. A normed algebra is an algebra endowed with a norm 
 satisfying the following property:
A complete normed algebra is called a Banach algebra. For basic properties of Banach algebra, refer to [
22].
In general, the product of two weakly sequentially continuous mappings on a Banach algebra is not necessarily weakly sequentially continuous.
Definition 10 ([
9])
. We will say that the Banach algebra X satisfies condition  if: Note that, every finite dimensional Banach algebra satisfies condition 
. If 
X satisfies condition 
, then the space 
 of all continuous functions from a compact Hausdorff space 
K into 
X is also a Banach algebra satisfying condition 
 (see [
9]).
Definition 11. Let X be a Banach algebra. An operator  is called regular on X if it maps X into the set of all invertible elements of X.
 In [
16] (Theorem 3.1), Afif Ben Amar et al. proved the following result:
Theorem 2 ([
16], Theorem 3.1)
. Let Ω be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space X and ω be an MWNC on X. Assume that  is a weakly sequentially continuous and countably ω-condensing mapping with a bounded range. Then, T has a fixed point. Theorem 3 ([
16], Theorem 3.3)
. Let Ω be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space X, ω be a positive homogeneous MWNC on X, and  be weakly sequentially continuous, weakly countably one-set-contractive. In addition, assume that T is weakly semi-closed at θ with a bounded range. Then, T has a fixed point. Theorem 4 ([
16], Theorem 3.2)
. Let Ω be a nonempty convex closed subset of a Banach space E,  be a weakly open subset of Ω with , and ω be a subadditive MWNC on E. Assume  is a weakly sequentially continuous countably ω-condensing map with  bounded. Then, either T has a fixed point or there exists  and  such that  (  denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω
). The following lemma is useful for the sequel.
Lemma 2. Let X be a Banach algebra satisfying condition . Then, for any bounded subset M of X and relatively weakly compact subset K of X, we have .
   3.  Results
Our first main result is a new version of Theorem 3.2 proven by Jeribi et al. in [
23].
Theorem 5. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, and  exists on , 
- (ii) 
- B and  are weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (iii) 
-  is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (iv) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (v) 
-  implies . 
Then, there exists  such that , whenever .
 Proof.  Note that  if and only if x is a fixed point for the operator 
Let 
; from Assumption 
, there is a unique 
 such that:
        
 then:
        
 by Condition 
, we have 
, and then, 
T is well defined on 
By Theorem 2, it suffices to prove that the map T is weakly sequentially continuous and countably -condensing.
Let 
 be a sequence in 
 such that 
 the set 
 is relatively weakly compact; and since 
B is weakly sequentially continuous, the set 
 is relatively weakly compact. Assume that 
 Since:
        
 and 
 is countably 
-
-contractive, we obtain:
        
 which is absurd. It follows that 
 is weakly relatively compact; hence, there exists a subsequence 
 of 
 such that 
 for some 
 Moreover, 
 is weakly sequentially continuous; then, 
 is weakly sequentially continuous, and then:
        
As we have 
 and 
 we obtain:
        
 which gives 
, and therefore, 
.
We claim that . Assume that there exists a subsequence  of  and a weak neighborhood  of  such that  for all  Since  converge weakly to x, we may extract a subsequence  of  such that  and  which is absurd. Hence,  it follows that T is weakly sequentially continuous.
T is countably 
-condensing. Indeed, let 
M be a countably subset of 
 with 
; we have:
        
 then 
, which ends the proof. □
  Corollary 1. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let  and  be two operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i) 
-  exists on , 
- (ii) 
- B and  are weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (iii) 
- C is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (iv) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (v) 
-  implies . 
Then, there exists  such that , whenever .
 Remark 1. - Note that Hypothesis  in Theorem 5 may be replaced by “A, B, and C are weakly sequentially continuous”, but the Banach algebra X must satisfy condition . 
- In Theorem 5, we do not require the conditions “A satisfies condition ” and “ is relatively weakly compact”, but in Theorem 3.2 in [23], these conditions are necessary. 
- In Theorem 5, Condition  may be replaced by -  A is regular on X and, A and C are nonlinear contractions on X with contraction functions  and , respectively, and , for  and . 
 In the following result, we will use the notion of -Lipschitzian operators.
Theorem 6. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X satisfying condition  and ω a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and  be three weakly sequentially continuous operators with the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, 
- (ii) 
-  is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (iii) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (iv) 
- A and C are -Lipschitzian with the -function  and , respectively, and  for  and , 
- (v) 
-  implies . 
Then, there exists  such that , whenever .
 Proof.  Let  and  by .
For each 
, 
 gives:
        
By the Boyd–Wong fixed point theorem ([
24]), the mapping 
 has a unique fixed point 
 Hence, the operator 
 is well defined; and by 
 we have 
Let 
 be a sequence in 
 such that 
 as seen in the proof of Theorem 5, there exists a subsequence 
 of 
 such that 
 for some 
 Since:
        
 and 
, and 
C are weakly sequentially continuous, we obtain:
        
 Thus, 
, and then, 
. As above, we can prove that 
 and then, 
T is weakly sequentially continuous. By Theorems 2 and 5, 
T is countably 
-condensing. □
 Remark 2. Note that the hypothesis “A and C are weakly sequentially continuous” in Theorem 6 can be replaced by “ is weakly sequentially continuous”, and in this case, the condition  is not required.
 Theorem 7. Let Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, and B is weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (ii) 
-  is ψ-expansive, accretive, and continuous, 
- (iii) 
-  is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (iv) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (v) 
-  implies . 
Then, there exists  such that , whenever .
 Proof.  For 
 we define the mapping 
 by:
        
Since  is continuous and accretive,  is continuous and pseudocontractive, and  is continuous and pseudocontractive.
Moreover, we have:
        
 for all 
, and 
 is 
-expansive. Then, 
 is 
-expansive, continuous, and accretive. It follows that 
 is 
m-accretive (see [
25], Corollary 3.2). By [
26], Theorem 8, we deduce that 
 is surjective. Then, there exists an 
 such that 
 It follows that:
        
 which implies 
. We conclude by Theorem 5. □
 In the following result, we present a nonlinear alternative of the Leary–Schauder type in Banach algebra.
Theorem 8. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X, U be a weakly open subset of Ω with , and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, and  exists on , 
- (ii) 
- B and  are weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (iii) 
-  is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (iv) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (v) 
-  implies . 
Then, either:
- (i) 
- there exists  such that , or 
- (ii) 
- there exists  and  such that , 
where  denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω and .
 Proof.  Let  Condition  implies , and T is weakly sequentially continuous and countably -condensing. Theorem 4 implies that T has a fixed point in U, or there exists  and  such that , then either there exists  such that , or there exists  and  such that . □
 Corollary 2. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X, U be a weakly open subset of Ω with , and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let  and  be two operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i) 
-  exists on , 
- (ii) 
- B and  are weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (iii) 
- C is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (iv) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (v) 
-  implies . 
Then,
- (i) 
- either there exists  such that , or 
- (ii) 
- there exists  and  such that , 
where  denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω, and .
 Remark 3. In Theorem 8, Condition  may be replaced by
 is ψ-expansive and  for all .
 Theorem 9. Let Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of a Banach algebra X, U be a weakly open subset of Ω with  and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, 
- (ii) 
- B and  are weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (iii) 
-  is ψ-expansive, accretive, and continuous, 
- (iv) 
-  is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (v) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (vi) 
-  implies . 
Then, either:
- (i) 
- there exists  such that , or 
- (ii) 
- there exists  and  such that . 
where  denotes the weak boundary of U in Ω, and .
 Proof.  Define  by . As seen in the proof of Theorem 7, the operator T is well defined; moreover, T is weakly sequentially continuous and countably -condensing, and by  we have ; we conclude by Theorem 4. □
 Remark 4. If we take A is the unit element in the Banach algebra X, we obtain Theorem 3.9 in [16].  In the following result, the operator  is not invertible.
Theorem 10. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a subadditive MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular, 
- (ii) 
-  is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (iii) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (iv) 
- for every net , , if , , then,  and , 
- (v) 
- for every net , , if  , , then there exists a weakly convergent subset of , 
- (vi) 
-  is convex, for all ; 
- (vii) 
-  for all  and  implies . 
Then, there exists  such that , whenever .
 Proof.  By 
, the multivalued mapping:
        
 is well defined.
Step 1. H has a -weakly closed graph in .
Let  and  be nets in  such that  and 
Since 
, we obtain 
 and 
 it follows that 
 and then 
 which gives:
        
 then, 
, and 
H has a 
-weakly closed graph.
Step 2. By Step 1,  is closed, for all , and by  
Step 3. H maps weakly compact sets into relatively weakly compact sets.
Let 
K be a weakly compact set in 
, and let 
 be a sequence in 
 choose 
 in 
K such that 
 for all 
 and 
 a subsequence of 
 such that 
 By 
 , and 
 implies that 
 has a weakly convergent subsequence. Then, by the Eberlein–Šmulian theorem [
27], 
 is relatively weakly compact.
Step 4. H is countably -condensing.
Let 
M be a countable subset of 
 with 
; we have:
        
 then, for all 
 we have:
        
 hence:
        
 consequently:
        
 then:
        
 and:
        
It follows that  and then, H is countably -condensing.
By Theorem 3.18 in [
16], we conclude that 
H has a fixed point in 
. □
 The following result requires the condition “relatively weakly compact” and where .
Theorem 11. Let Ω be a nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex subset of a Banach algebra X and ω be a positive homogenous MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, and  exists on , 
- (ii) 
- B and  are weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (iii) 
-  is relatively weakly compact, 
- (iv) 
- B is countably β-ω-contractive, 
- (v) 
- If  is a sequence in Ω such that , then  has a weakly convergent subsequence, 
- (vi) 
-  is countably α-ω-contractive on Ω, 
- (vii) 
-  implies . 
Then, there exists  such that , whenever .
 Proof.  Let 
, and consider:
        
 by 
 and 
, it is clear that 
T is well defined.
We will show that T satisfies the conditions of Theorem 3. From the proof of Theorem 5, we can see that T is weakly sequentially continuous, and then, it suffices to prove that T is weakly countably one-set-contractive and semi-closed at .
Let 
M be a countably subset of 
; we have:
        
 then:
        
 and so:
        
 therefore, 
T is weakly countably one-set-contractive.
Now, let 
 be a sequence in 
 such that 
.
        
By  there exists a subsequence  of  such that  and then,  By , we conclude that there exists a subsequence  of , which converges to some element  Since  and T is weakly sequentially continuous, we obtain , and then, T is weakly semi-closed at . □
 Let 
 be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a Banach algebra 
X, and let 
, and 
 be three operators. For any 
, we set (see [
28]):
If  and , we obtain .
Theorem 12. Let X be a Banach algebra satisfying condition  and Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of X; ω is an MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators satisfying the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, and B is weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (ii) 
-  is a contraction on Ω, 
- (iii) 
- , for any countably subset D of Ω with , 
- (iv) 
- , 
- (v) 
- If , then  and  have weakly convergent subsequences (converging respectively to y and z), and if , we have  and . 
Then, there exists  such that .
 Proof.  For 
 we define the mapping:
        
  implies that 
 is a contraction; then, 
 has a unique fixed point 
 we have 
 or equivalently 
 which shows that 
 It follows that 
.
Let 
M be a countable subset of 
 such that 
 we have:
        
Hence,  then,  is countably -condensing.
Moreover, 
 is weakly sequentially continuous. Indeed, let 
 be a sequence in 
 such that 
 since 
B is weakly sequentially continuous, we have 
, and since 
, there exists a subsequence 
 and 
 of 
 such that 
 and 
 It follows that:
        
With , we obtain  and  and then, 
The uniqueness of the fixed point implies that  and therefore, . We claim that  For this, assume that there exists a weak neighborhood V of  and a subsequence  of  such that  for all  Since  we can extract a subsequence  of  such that . This is not possible, since  for all . We conclude that  is weakly sequentially continuous. By Theorem 2, there exists  such that . □
 If 
 in Theorem 12, we obtain Theorem 3.11 in [
16].
Theorem 13. Let Ω be a nonempty, closed, convex, and bounded subset of a Banach algebra X; ω is an MWNC on X. Let , and  be three operators that satisfy the following conditions:
- (i) 
- A is regular on X, and  is one-to-one, 
- (ii) 
-  is nonexpansive, 
- (iii) 
- B and  are weakly sequentially continuous, 
- (iv) 
- , for any countably subset D of Ω with , 
- (v) 
-  for all , 
- (vi) 
- If  such that  is weakly convergent, then the sequence  has a weakly convergent subsequence. 
Then, there exists  such that .
 Proof.  Let 
, and define 
 by:
        
By 
  is nonexpansive, and by 
, we have 
 Then, by ([
29], Theorem 2.15), there exists a sequence 
 in 
 such that 
, and then, 
 Using 
 we can extract a subsequence 
 of 
 such that 
, and then, 
 then:
        
 which implies 
.
Define 
 by 
 Let 
 and 
 the equality 
 implies that 
 then:
        
 for any subset 
D of 
.
The assumption  implies that T is countably -condensing. Moreover, T is weakly sequentially continuous. Indeed, let  be a sequence such that ; we have  then,  By , there exists a subsequence  such that ; thus,  which leads to , and so, . As in the proof of Theorem 5, we can prove that , and we apply Theorem 2 to end the proof. □
 Remark 5. If we take  in Theorem 13, we obtain Theorem 3.13 in [16].    5. Example
Consider the Banach algebra 
 of all continuous real-valued functions on 
, with norm 
. In this case, 
, and 
E is a Banach algebra satisfying condition 
 and reflexive. Let 
 be a continuous and nonnegative function such that 
. We consider the following nonlinear integral equation:
To show that (
3) has a solution in 
 we will verify that all conditions of Theorem 14 are satisfied.
Define 
, by 
 (in this case 
). For all 
, the function 
 is continuous (then weakly sequentially continuous, because 
), and for all 
, the function 
 is continuous. Now, let 
 and 
; we have:
 where the function 
 is continuous with bound 
.
Next, we introduce the function 
 such that 
 for all 
. As seen in Step 2 in the proof of Theorem 14, the operator 
T is weakly sequentially continuous, regular on 
E, and 
 is well defined on 
E. Let 
 and 
; we have:
 thus, 
, where 
.
Moreover, 
 is weakly compact on 
 indeed, let 
, and let 
 such that 
. Without loss of generality, we may assume that 
. Using the Hahn–Banach theorem, we deduce that there exists 
 such that 
 and 
, hence,
      
 then 
 is weakly equicontinuous. Now, let 
 be a sequence in 
E, and fix 
; we have:
 therefore, 
 is weakly equi-bounded. Let 
; since 
 is reflexive, then by [
33], the set 
 is weakly relatively sequentially compact. The Arzela–Ascoli theorem implies that there exists a subsequence 
 such that 
 then, 
 is relatively weakly compact. Therefore, 
 is weakly compact.
Let 
 and 
; we have:
 where 
 is continuous with bound 
.
Finally, we define 
, by 
 For each 
, the function 
 is weakly measurable on 
, and for almost every 
, the function 
 is continuous (then weakly sequentially continuous). Furthermore, we have:
 where 
 and 
 for all 
 since 
 for all 
.
Moreover, if 
W is a countably bounded subset of 
X, we have:
 Then:
We set , such that ; we have that q is continuous and 
If we take , we get  and  (then, for all ,  where  and ).
Now, we have  and , then ,  and .
Theorem 14 proves the existence of a solution to Equation (
3).