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Existence of maximal elements and equilibria in linear topological spaces. (English) Zbl 0536.90019
Summary: We present some mathematical theorems which are used to generalize previous results on the existence of maximal elements and of equilibrium. Our main theorem in this paper is a new existence proof for an equilibrium in an abstract economy, which is closely related to a previous result of {\it A. Borglin} and {\it H. Keiding} [ibid. 3, 313- 316 (1976; Zbl 0349.90157)] and {\it W. Shafer} and {\it H. Sonnenschein} [ibid. 2, 345-348 (1975; Zbl 0312.90062)] but allows for an infinite number of commodities and a countably infinite number of agents.

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 91B50 General equilibrium theory in economics 54H25 Fixed-point and coincidence theorems in topological spaces
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