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κ ESSENTIAL -TYPE MAPS AND BIRKHOFF-KELLOGG c THEOREMS R. P. AGARWAL AND DONAL O’REGAN Received 10 February 2003 and in revised form 15 September 2003 We present a new continuation theorem for κ -type maps. The analysis is elementary and c relies on properties of retractions and fixed point theory for self-maps. Also we present some Birkhoff-Kellogg type theorems on invariant directions. 1. Introduction This paper presents a new essential map approach, motivated in part by the pa