ON THE EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS OF A GENERALIZED MONOTONE EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEM

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Department of Mathematics, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.
Abstract
Blum and Oettli in their seminal paper studied the existence of equilibrium points for monotone bifunctions. In this work, we extend their main result by replacing
monotone bifunction with a more general bifunction and prove the existence of an equilibrium point.

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