Local dense solutions for equilibrium problems with applications to noncooperative games

Abstract

In this work, we establish several results concerning the existence of solutions for set-valued and single-valued equilibrium problems in real Hausdorff topological vector spaces. Firstly we introduce some generalizations of convexity and continuity conditions to set-valued mappings and then apply them to special dense subsets of the domain to obtain the existence of local dense solutions of equilibrium problems. Then the existence of the global solutions follows from a condition that is weaker than semistrict quasiconvexity. Specifically, we give an existence theorem for noncooperative n-person games, under assumptions imposed on a locally segment-dense subset of the strategy set of each player.

Keywords:

• Equilibrium problem
• locally segment-dense set
• set-valued mapping
• quasiconvexity
• topological vector space

Acknowledgments

The authors are very grateful to the anonymous referee for his/her valuable remarks which improved the paper significantly. The second author gratefully acknowledges Arak University for financial support during this research.

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Funding

The second author gratefully acknowledges Arak University for financial support during this research.