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By using quasimonotone and pseudomonotone bifunctions, we derive sufficient conditions which include weak coercivity conditions for existence of equilibrium points. As a consequence, we improve some recent results on the existence of such solutions.
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Fakhar, M., Zafarani, J. Generalized Equilibrium Problems for Quasimonotone and Pseudomonotone Bifunctions. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 123, 349–364 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-004-5153-1
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