Inclusion statements for operator equations by a continuity principle

The paper is concerned with Range-Domain Implications MvCvK, where M is a given operator and C,K denote given sets. Sufficient conditions are derived by a very general continuity principle. Various special cases are considered such as inverse-positivity, MvMwvw, and a generalization H(,,])MvH(,,]) v, where Mu=H(u,u) and ,] denotes an order interval. These results are applied to differential operators related to boundary or initial value problems. The goal is to furnish a simple uniform approach, to explain its application, and to provide a kind of survey on what problems have been treated in this way.