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The joint continuity of the expected payoff functions
Authors:Charalambos D Aliprantis  Dionysius Glycopantis  Daniela Puzzello
Institution:1. Department of Economics, Purdue University, 100 S Grant St., West Lafayette, IN 47907-2056, USA;2. Department of Economics, City University, Northhampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK;3. Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0034, USA
Abstract:Glicksberg Glicksberg, I.L., 1952. A further generalization of the Kakutani fixed point theorem, with applications to Nash equilibrium points. In: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 3, pp. 170–174] generalized the Kakutani fixed point theorem to the setting of locally convex spaces and used it to prove that every k-person strategic game with action sets convex compact subsets of locally convex spaces and continuous payoff functions has a Nash equilibrium. He subsequently used this result to establish the following fundamental theorem of game theory: Every k-person strategic game with action sets metrizable compact topological spaces and continuous payoff functions has a mixed strategies equilibrium. However, in his proof of the latter result, Glicksberg did not show that the expected payoff functions were jointly continuous, something that was required for the existence of a mixed strategies equilibrium.
Keywords:C72
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