Consider an ordered Banach space and
f,g
two self-operators defined on the interior of its positive cone. In this article, we prove that the equation
f(X)=g(X)
has a positive solution, whenever f is strictly
\alpha
-concave g-monotone or strictly
(-\alpha )
-convex g-antitone with g super-homogeneous and surjective. As applications, we show the existence of positive definite solutions to new classes of nonlinear matrix equations.