Intersection theorems for closed convex sets and applications

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Authors Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh

Publication date 15 March 2016

Published in Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05813, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mjms/1449161367

zbMATH Keywords

coincidenceconvex KKM theoremfixed points for von Neumann relationsHahn-Banach theoremintersection theoremsMarkov-Kakutani fixed point theoremminimization of functionalsseparation of convex setssystems of nonlinear inequalitiesvariational inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological consequences of geometric convexity (32F27) Analytical consequences of geometric convexity (vanishing theorems, etc.) (32F32) Set-valued operators (47H04) Fixed-point theorems (47H10) Applications of operator theory in optimization, convex analysis, mathematical programming, economics (47N10) Convex sets in topological vector spaces (aspects of convex geometry) (52A07)

Abstract: A number of landmark existence theorems of nonlinear functional analysis follow in a simple and direct way from the basic separation of convex closed sets in finite dimension via elementary versions of the Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz principle - which we extend to arbitrary topological vector spaces - and a coincidence property for so-called von Neumann relations. The method avoids the use of deeper results of topological essence such as the Brouwer fixed point theorem or the Sperner's lemma and underlines the crucial role played by convexity. It turns out that the convex KKM principle is equivalent to the Hahn-Banach theorem, the Markov-Kakutani fixed point theorem, and the Sion-von Neumann minimax principle.

Review text

By using a standard separation theorem, the author proves first the convex KKM theorem (the Ky Fan KKM principle, when the involved mapping is convex-valued). Then, this result provides simple proofs of several fundamental results from the KKM theory: fixed point or coincidence theorems, variational inequalities, minimax inequalities, etc. The used method avoids deeper arguments of topological essence such as the Brouwer fixed point theorem or the Sperner's lemma and underlines the crucial role played by convexity.

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