Coincidence Theory in the Coercive Case and Minimax Inequalities

We established coincidence results between maps with continuous selections and admissible maps. Both the compact and coercive cases were considered, and our argument relied on new coincidence ideas established recently by the author. Using our coincidence theory, we established new analytic alternatives, which then generate new minimax inequalities of the Neumann–Sion type.

Weak KKM set-valued mappings in hyperconvex metric spaces

In this paper, the concept of weak KKM set-valued mapping is extended from topological vector spaces to hyperconvex metric spaces. For these mappings we obtain several intersection theorems that prove to be useful in establishing existence criteria for weak and strong solutions of the general variational inequality problem and minimax inequalities.

Generalized Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz type theorems and applications to minimax inequalities

Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz type theorems play an important role in nonlinear analysis, optimization, and applied mathematics. Since the first well-known result, many international efforts have been made to develop sufficient conditions for the existence of points intersection (and their applications) in increasingly general settings: Gconvex spaces [21, 23], L-convex spaces [12], and FCspaces [8, 9]. Applications of Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz type theorems, especially in existence studies for variational inequalities, equilibrium problems and more general settings have been obtained by many authors, see e.g. recent papers [1, 2, 3, 8, 18, 24, 26] and the references therein. In this paper we propose a definition of generalized KnasterKuratowski-Mazurkiewicz mappings to encompass R-KKM mappings [5], L-KKM mappings [11], T-KKM mappings [18, 19], and many recent existing mappings. Knaster-KuratowskiMazurkiewicz type theorems are established in general topological spaces to generalize known results. As applications, we develop in detail general types of minimax theorems. Our results are shown to improve or include as special cases several recent ones in the literature.