Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 36135, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/FPTA/2006/36135

Fixed points as Nash equilibria

Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez

Department of Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Marquês de São Vicente 225, Rio de Janeiro 22453-900, Brazil

Received 27 March 2006; Revised 19 September 2006; Accepted 1 October 2006

Copyright © 2006 Juan Pablo Torres-Martínez. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The existence of fixed points for single or multivalued mappings is obtained as a corollary of Nash equilibrium existence in finitely many players games.