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On Ky Fan's minimax principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

E. Tarafdar
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia. Queensland 4067, Australia.
H. B. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia. Queensland 4067, Australia.
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Abstract

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A generalized version of the Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz theorem is obtained and used to generalize Ky Fan's minimax principle. This result is applied to a variational inequality.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1978

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