1 Erratum to: Positivity DOI 10.1007/s11117-014-0273-9

The original publication of the article contains an error which need to be amended as mentioned below:

In the original paper, we obtained an important lemma (i.e. Lemma 3.1).

Lemma 3.1

For any given \(f\in C^{*}\backslash \{0_{{Y^{*}}}\}.\) Suppose that the following conditions are satisfied:

  1. (i)

    \(A(\cdot )\) is continuous with nonempty compact values on \(\Lambda .\)

  2. (ii)

    \(F\) is u.s.c. with nonempty compact values on \(B\times B\times \Lambda .\)

  3. (iii)

    For any \(\mu \in \Lambda ,\)

    $$\begin{aligned} (inf_{{z \in F(x,y,\mu )}})f(z))(inf_{{z\in F(y,x,\mu )}}f(z))\le 0,\quad \forall x,y\in A(\mu ). \end{aligned}$$
  4. (iv)

    For any \(\mu \in \Lambda ,\) assumption \((A)\) holds for \(f.\)

Then\(,\) \(S_{f}(\cdot )\) is l.s.c. on \(\Lambda .\)

In the proof of the lemma in the original paper, we need prove \(y_{0}=x_{0}\) to obtain a contradiction. For the purpose, by applying (3) of the original paper and \(inf_{{z\in F(x_{0},y_{0},\mu _{0})}}f(z)\le 0\), we obtained Page 6, line 14 of the original paper

$$\begin{aligned} inf_{{z \in F(y_{0},x_{0},\mu _{0})}}f(z)=0. \end{aligned}$$
(1)

Then, by assumption (iv), we got that \(y_{0}=x_{0}\).

In fact, (1) should be replaced by \(inf_{{z \in F(x_{0},y_{0},\mu _{0})}}f(z)=0\).