Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 457069, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/457069

Best proximity sets and equilibrium pairs for a finite family of multimaps

M.A. Al-Thagafi and Naseer Shahzad

Department of Mathematics, King AbdulAziz University, P.O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

We establish the existence of a best proximity pair for which the best proximity set is nonempty for a finite family of multimaps whose product is either an 𝔄𝐜κ-multimap or a multimap T:A2B such that both T and ST are closed and have the KKM property for each Kakutani multimap S:B2A. As applications, we obtain existence theorems of equilibrium pairs for free n-person games as well as for free 1-person games. Our results extend and improve several well-known and recent results.