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In this paper, by an approach, which is based on a notion of sequentially sign property for bifunctions, we establish existence results for equilibrium problems in the setting of Hausdorff locally convex topological vector spaces. The main advantages of this approach are that our conditions are imposed just on a locally segment-dense set, instead of the whole domain.
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Jafari, S., Farajzadeh, A. & Moradi, S. Locally Densely Defined Equilibrium Problems. J Optim Theory Appl 170, 804–817 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-016-0950-x
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