Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2018 / iii / Paper 107 / 5 / c / Solution

The Fredholm alternative for an elliptic Dirichlet problem and part (b) give an inverse $S:Y\to X$ of norm at most $K\ge 1$. ChooseOn the closed radius-$\epsilon$ ball $\mathcal{B}\subset X$, set $T(v)=S(\mathcal{Q}(v)+f)$. The stated inequalities giveandThus $T$ is a contraction mapping of the complete metric space $\mathcal{B}$ into itself. The Banach fixed-point theorem gives $u=T(u)$, solving the required nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem. This small-data existence for a nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problem also gives uniqueness within this small ball; it does not assert global uniqueness.