The characterization of generalized metric KKM mappings with open values in hyperconvex metric spaces and some applications (Q1300040)

The author establishes a characterization for a set-valued mapping with finitely metrically open values being a generalized metric KKM mapping in hyperconvex metric spaces. This result can be considered as a dual form of a corresponding result for the Fan-KKM principle in hyperconvex metric spaces obtained recently by \textit{M. A. Khamsi} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 204, No. 1, 298-306 (1996; Zbl 0869.54045)]. Then the author shows that the finite intersection property of generalized metric KKM mappings with finitely metrically open values indeed is equivalent to the finite intersection property of generalized metric KKM mappings with finitely metrically closed values in hyperconvex spaces. As applications, the author obtains some Ky-Fan-type matching theorems for both closed and open covers in hyperconvex spaces, which, in turn, are used to establish fixed point theorems for set-valued mappings in hyperconvex metric spaces.