On the existence of zeros of monotone operators in reflexive Banach spaces

This paper is devoted to the investigation on the existence of zeros of monotone operators in reflexive Banach spaces. We first present a sufficient condition under which single-valued monotone operators have zeros. The obtained theorem includes a previous result as a special case. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of zeros of maximal monotone operators is presented. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved