Positive continuous linear functionals on Riesz spaces and applications to minimax theorems (Q1111153)

Let \(E\) be an order-complete topological Riesz space with the positive cone \(C\) having nonempty interior and \(C'\) its dual cone. The main result states that: If \(f\colon X\times Y\to E\) is such that \(\inf_{X}f(x,y)\in cl(f(X\times \{y\})\) for every \(y\in Y\), \(\sup_{Y}f(x,y)\in cl(f(\{x\}\times Y)\) for every \(x\in X\) and \(\inf_{X} \sup_{Y} \phi (f(x,y))=\sup_{Y} \inf_{X} \phi (f(x,y))\) for every \(\phi\in C'\), then \(\inf_{X} \sup_{Y} f(x,y)=\sup_{Y} \inf_{X} f(x,y)\). Under Fuchssteiner-König's convexity type conditions on \(f\) it is possible to obtain the above result without the hypothesis on \(\phi\in C'\).