This monograph provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of an order-theoretic fixed point theory in partially ordered sets and its various useful interactions with topological structures. It begins with a discussion of some simple examples of the order-theoretic fixed point results along with simple applications from each of the diverse fields. The fixed point theory is then developed and preliminary results on multi-valued variational inequalities regarding the topological and order-theoretical structure of solution sets are covered. This is followed by more advanced material which demonstrates the power of the developed fixed point theory. In the treatment of the applications a wide range of mathematical theories and methods from nonlinear analysis and integration theory are applied; an outline of which has been given in an appendix chapter to make the book self-contained.
Graduate students and researchers in nonlinear analysis, pure and applied mathematics, game theory and mathematical economics will find this book useful.
Siegfried Carl
Inequalities Integration theory Nonlinear analysis Order-theoretic
From the reviews:
“The book provides a self-contained exposition of an order-theoretic fixed point theory in partially ordered sets together with its interactions with topological structures. … The book is well written and provides a very detailed study of theoretic topics along with many illustrative examples and applications of various types covering an immense range of problems. … the book is very well designed for studying nonlinear problems via a fixed point approach. Both graduate students and mathematicians … will find this book attractive, useful and highly instructive.” (Wojciech Kryszewski, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 c)