fixed point of a multivalued map

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Suppose I have a map $S:X \to Y$ between Banach spaces which is multivalued, so that $S(x)$ is a set.

I have shown that $S$ takes a closed ball of radius $R$ to itself, and it also is such that if $x_n \to x$ weakly, then there exists $y_n \in S(x_n)$ and $y \in S(x)$ such that $y_n \to y$ strongly.

Is this enough to conclude that $S$ has a fixed point? I.e. that there is a $z$ such that $z \in S(z)$? If $S$ were single valued, it is enough by Tikhonov's Fixed Point Theorem.

Is there something easy to apply in this case too?

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Generally no. One usually also wants some regularity condition on the sets $S(x)$. The standard requirement is for $S(x)$ to be convex for all $x$, see here, for example.$^1$ (Note: this is vacuously satisfied when considering functions, hence why such a condition is not stated for Tikhonov's fixed point theorem.)

As a simple counter example of what can go wrong without such a hypothesis, let $X = Y = \mathbb{R}$, and let $$ S(x) = \begin{cases} -1 & \textrm{ if } x \ge 0 \\ 1 & \textrm{ if } x \le 0. \end{cases} $$ $S$ clearly takes the unit ball about the origin to itself, is upper-hemicontinuous, and fixed point free.


$^1$ Convexity can be greatly relaxed. The search terms to look up are 'acyclicity', 'Eilenberg-Montgomery fixed point theorem', and 'Vietoris-Begle theorem'. Gorniewicz' Topological Fixed Point Theory of Multivalued Mappings is a comprehensive treatment of the subject that may interest you.