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Fixed point theory in ordered sets and applications. From differential and integral equations to game theory. (English) Zbl 1209.47001

New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 978-1-4419-7584-3/hbk; 978-1-4419-7585-0/ebook). xiv, 477 p. (2011).
The main subject of this book is the use of the Chain Generating Recursion Principle in introducing iteration methods which lead to the proof of fixed point theorems on partially ordered sets (posets). These fixed point theorems are applied in numerous cases of subtle problems, like existence and comparison results for operator equations and inclusions, partial differential equations and inclusions, ordinary differential and integral equations in Banach spaces. The Chain Generating Recursion Principle is actually a way to derive well-ordered chains in posets by using well-ordered sets in them. Moreover, these fixed point results, which are contained in the Chapter 2 of the book, are useful in the proof of the existence and the study of the properties of Nash equilibria for normal-form games. They are also applicable in the study of the existence of winning strategies for (ordered) pursuit and evasion games. Note that pursuit and evasion games rely in general on monotone parts of (possibly transfinite) sequences.

MSC:

47-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operator theory
06Axx Ordered sets
06Bxx Lattices
03F60 Constructive and recursive analysis
28B05 Vector-valued set functions, measures and integrals
34Axx General theory for ordinary differential equations
34Bxx Boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations
34Gxx Differential equations in abstract spaces
34Kxx Functional-differential equations (including equations with delayed, advanced or state-dependent argument)
35B51 Comparison principles in context of PDEs
35J87 Unilateral problems for nonlinear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear elliptic operators
35K86 Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators
45N05 Abstract integral equations, integral equations in abstract spaces
46G12 Measures and integration on abstract linear spaces
47H04 Set-valued operators
47H10 Fixed-point theorems
47J10 Nonlinear spectral theory, nonlinear eigenvalue problems
49J40 Variational inequalities
91A10 Noncooperative games
91B16 Utility theory
91B50 General equilibrium theory
58D25 Equations in function spaces; evolution equations
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