NEW EXISTENCE OF EQUILIBRIA VIA CONNECTEDNESS

The purpose of this paper is to prove a new topological fixed point theorem by using the 
connectedness property, and next existence of equilibria in generalized games are established as 
applications.


INTRODUCTION
In many problems of nonlinear functional analysis and applied mathematics, the fixed point technique is a very useful tool for proving the existence of solutions.And we have known many interesting fixed point theorems and their applications, e.g.see Browder [1], Fan [2], Mehta and Tarafdar [3], Tan and Yuan [4].
The classical fixed point theorem, due to Fan and Browder 1,2], is as follows.
Let X be a non-empty compact convex subset of a Hausdorff topological vector space E and let T:X 2 x be a multimap such that for each x q.X, TIx is non-empty convex and for each /6 X, T -1 (F) is open in X.Then there exists 6 X such that 6 T().
In the above, the convexity assumption is very essential and the main proving tool is the continuous selection technique.Still there have been many equivalent formulations of the above theorem, and also many generalizations and applications have been established, e.g.see [3,4,5].
In this paper, we shall give a new existence theorem by using the topological property of convex sets We first prove a new fixed point theorem by using the connectedness, and next prove a basic existence theorem.Finally equilibrium existence theorems are established as applications.

PRELIMINARIES
We first recall the following notations and definitions.Let A be a non-empty set.We shall denote by 2 the family of all subsets of A. Let X, Y be non-empty topological spaces and T:X 2 Y be a multimap.The multimap T is said to be open or have open graph if the graph of /" (CrrT {(x,T(x)) 6 X x YIx X}) is open in X x Y, and T is said to be closed or have closed graph if the graph of T is closed in X x Y.We may call T(x) the upper secnon of T, and T-I($/)( {x 6 X]/6 T(x)}) the lower section of T. It is easy to check that ifT has open graph, then the upper and lower sections of T are open; however the converse is not true in general.
A multimap T:X 2 : is said to be closed at z if for each net (z) z, 114 E T(zo) and (/) /, then V E T(z).A multimap T is closedifit is closed at every point of X.It is clear that ifT is closed at z and each T(zo) is non-empty, then T(z) is also non-empty.Note that ifT is single-valued, then the closedness is equivalent to continuity as a function.Let S, T X --, 2 " be multimaps; then S is called a closed selecnon ofT if for each z .X,S (z) c T(z) and S is a closed multimap.Let X,Y be non-empty topological spaces and T X 2 Y be a correspondence.A correspondence T X --, 2 v is said to be upper semicontinuous if for each z 6 X and each open set V in Y with T(z) C V, then there exists an open neighborhood U of z in X such that T(V) C V for each V E U.
For a given multimap T X 2v, z X is called a manmal element for T if T(z) .I ndeed, in real applications, the maximal element may be interpreted as the set of those objects in X that are the "best" or "largest" choices.
Finally we recall the following definitions of equilibrium theory in mathematical economics.Let I be a finite or an infinite set of agents.For each E I, let Xi be a non-empty set of actions A generalized game F (X,, A,, P)I is defined as a family of ordered triples (X,, A,, P) where X is a non-empty topological space (a choice set), A, 1-IseiX 2 x, is a constraint correspondence (multimap) and P YIeiX 2 x, is a preference correspondence.An equilibrium for P is a point $ X 1-I,X, such that for each I, $, Ai($) and Ai($) P,() .In particular, when I (1, ..-,n}, we may call l" an N-person game.

A NEW FIXED POINT THEOREM
We begin with the following: THEOREM 1.Let X be a non-empty connected subset of a Hausdorff topological space E and S, T X 2 be multimaps such that (1) S is a closed selection ofT, i.e. S is a closed multimap and S(z) C T(z) for each z E X, (2) for some V0 E, S-(/0) is non-empty open in X.
Then we have {/o} C '] T(z).zX In particular, if /o X, then Fo is a fixed point for T, i.e. o 6 T(/o).PROOF.Since S is closed, the lower section S-(/0) is closed.In fact, for every net (Zo)o r c S-(/o) with (zo) z, we have /o S(zo) for each a E I" and (zo)z, so by the closedness of S at z, 0 S(z).Hence S(z) =f-and z G S-1(/0), so that S-(V0) is closed.By assumption (2), S-(I/0) is both open and closed in X, and hence by the connectedness of X,S-(/0) X. Therefore we have /0 S(z) c T(z) for each x X, so that (V0) c xT(x).
We can reformulate Theorem to the following existence of maximal element: COROLLARY.Let X be a non-empty connected subset of a Hausdorff topological space E and T X ---, 2 x be closed at every x where T(z) = , such that (1) T-(/0) is non-empty open in X for some /0 E X, (-) 0 T(0).
Then T has a maximal element E X, i.e.T() .
PROOF.Suppose T(z) for each z X.Then by Theorem 1, /0 T(z) for each x X, and this contradicts assumption (2).Therefore T has a maximal element.
As we remarked before, maximal element theorem is a very essential tool for proving existence theorems in mathematical economics, e.g.see [3,4,5].
In Theorem 1, if we assume the strong open lower section condition on T, we can obtain the following: THEOREM 2. Let X be a non-empty connected subset of a Hausdorff topological space E and T X -, 2 E be a closed multimap such that (1) for some x0 E X, T(z0) is non-empty, (2) for each y E E, T -1 (y) is open (maybe empty) in X.Then there exists a non-empty subset K C E such that T(z) K for each x X, i.e.T is a constant multimap.
PROOF.Suppose the assertion were false.Then we can find x X and y0 E such that either Yo T(xo)\T(xl) or Yo T(x)\T(xo).Suppose the case that yo T(xo)\T(xt).Since T is closed, as in the proof of Theorem l, the lower section T-l(y0) is closed.By assumption (2), T -1 (Y0) is also open Since x0 T-(y0), by the connectedness of X,T-(yo) X. Therefore we have Yo T(x) for each x X, which is a contradiction.In the case of Yo -T(xl)\T(xo), we can also show that T -( Y0) is both open and closed, so that this induces the same contradiction.Therefore T must be constant, i.e. there exists a non-empty subset K C E such that T(x) K for each x X.This completes the proof The above theorem can be useful in the following examples: EXAMPLES.(i) Let X := (0, 1] and S, T" X 2 x be defined as follows: Then it is easy to see that S is clearly a closed selection of T and S satisfies the whole assumptions of Theorem 1. Therefore T has a fixed point.Note that since S - () is not necessarily open, we cannot apply Theorem 2 directly to S.
Then T is clearly closed at every point in the nnected set X and also T-(0,0)= X is open.
Therefore, by Theorem 1, we can find a fixed point for T.And it should be noted that the domain of T and some T(x) are not convex, so that many lown fixed point theorenis (e.g.[1,2,3,5,6] cannot be suitable for T.

EXISTENCE OF EQUILIBRIA
As an application, we first give an existence theorem of equilibrium for 1-person game THEOREM 3. Let (X, A, P) be a 1-person game such that (1) X is a non-empty connected subset ofa Hausdorfftopological space, (2) the correspondence A X ---, 2 x is closed such that A(x) is connected for some x X, (3) the correspondence P" X --, 2 x is closed at every z where A(x) P(x) : , (4) for each y E X, A -1 () is open (maybe empty) in X, (5) for some Y0 X, A-(Y0) 1"3 P-I(Y0) is non-empty open in X, (6) 0 P(0).Then F has an equilibrium choice X, i.e () and () P() .