A KKM-RESULT AND AN APPLICATION FOR BINARY AND NON-BINARY CHOICE FUNCTIONS

Abstract

By generalizing the classical Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz Theorem, we obtain a result that provides sufficient conditions to ensure the non-emptiness of several kinds of choice functions. This result generalizes well-known results on the existence of maximal elements for binary relations (Bergstrom, 1975; Walker, 1977; Tian, 1993), on the non-emptiness of non-binary choice functions (Nehring, 1996; Llinares and Sánchez, 1999) and on the non-emptiness of some classical solutions for tournaments (top cycle and uncovered set) on non-finite sets.Binary Choice Function; Non-Binary Choice Function