Nash equilibria via duality and homological selection (Q2018813)

Let \(f: \mathbb{D}^m \multimap \mathbb{D}^n\) be a continuous multimap of finite-dimensional discs with compact values. Let \(\operatorname{gr}(f)\) denote the graph of \(f\) and \(\operatorname{gr}(\partial f)\) the graph of the restriction of \(f\) to \(\partial \mathbb{D}^m\). A non-zero \(m\)-dimensional chain \(c_m\) supported in \(\operatorname{gr}(f)\) is called the homological selection of \(f\) if its boundary \(\partial^m c_m\) is supported in \(\operatorname{gr}(\partial f)\) and the projection \(H_m(\operatorname{gr}(f)\), \(\operatorname{gr}(\partial f)) \to H_m(\mathbb{D}^m, \partial \mathbb{D}^m)\) maps \(c_m\) to a non-zero class. The authors present a homological selection theorem and consider its application to the existence of a Nash equilibrium.