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Fixed point theorems in locally convex spaces—the Schauder mapping method

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In the appendix to the book by F. F. Bonsal, Lectures on Some Fixed Point Theorems of Functional Analysis (Tata Institute, Bombay, 1962) a proof by Singbal of the Schauder-Tychonoff fixed point theorem, based on a locally convex variant of Schauder mapping method, is included. The aim of this note is to show that this method can be adapted to yield a proof of Kakutani fixed point theorem in the locally convex case. For the sake of completeness we include also the proof of Schauder-Tychonoff theorem based on this method. As applications, one proves a theorem of von Neumann and a minimax result in game theory.

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Cobzaş, S. Fixed point theorems in locally convex spaces—the Schauder mapping method. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2006, 57950 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/FPTA/2006/57950

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