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A slight modification of Ky Fan’s generalized concavity makes it possible to prove the existence of a Nash-equilibrium point for n-person, normal-form noncooperative games. Examples are given to demonstrate that this existence theorem covers areas where sufficient conditions of some other well-known existence theorems fail to hold.
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Forgó, F. (1994). On the existence of Nash-equilibrium in n-person generalized concave games. In: Komlósi, S., Rapcsák, T., Schaible, S. (eds) Generalized Convexity. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46802-5_5
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