Background
Type: Article

Generalized equilibrium problems for quasimonotone and pseudomonotone bifunctions

Journal: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (223239)Year: 2004Volume: Issue: 2Pages: 349 - 364
Fakhar M.a Zafarani J.
DOI:10.1007/s10957-004-5153-1Language: English

Abstract

By using quasimonotone and pseudomonotone bifunctions, we derive sufficient conditions which include weak coercivity conditions for existence of equilibrium points. As a consequence, we improve some recent results on the existence of such solutions.


Author Keywords

equilibrium problemsFan's KKM lemmapseudomonotone bifunctionsquasimonotone bifunctionsvariational inequalities

Other Keywords

Coercive forceBifunctionsConditionEquilibrium problemFan KKM lemmaGeneralized equilibrium problemsPseudomonotonePseudomonotone bifunctionQuasimonotone bifunctionVariational inequalitiesVariational techniques