“…For additional facts and various topological degree theories related to the subject of this paper, the reader is referred to Adhikari and Kartsatos [3,5], Kartsatos and Lin [23], and Kartsatos and Skrypnik [25,27]. For further information on functional analytic tools used herein, the reader is referred to Barbu [10], Browder [16], Pascali and Sburlan [30], Simons [32], Skrypnik [33,34], and Zeidler [36].…”