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Appl. Math. Mech. -Engl. Ed., 34(10), 1291–1296 (2013) Applied Mathematics DOI 10.1007/s10483-013-1745-8 and Mechanics c Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 (English Edition) Weak KKM theorems in generalized finitely continuous space with applications∗ Min FANG ( ), Lei WANG ( ) (Department of Economic Mathematics, South Western University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610074, P. R. China) Abstract Some new weak Knaster-Kuratouski-Mazurkiewicz (KKM) theorems are proved under the noncompact situation in the generalized finitely continuous space (GFC- space) without any convexity. As applications, the minimax inequalities of the Ky Fan type are also given under some suitable conditions. The results unify and generalize some known results in recent literatures. Key words weak Knaster-Kuratouski-Mazurkiewicz (KKM) mapping, generalized finitely continuous space (GFC-space), minimax inequality, GFC-quasicovex Chinese Library Classification O177.92 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification 47H10, 54H25 1 Introduction The famous Knaster-Kuratouski-Mazurkiewicz (KKM) theorem was introduced by Knaster et al. in [1], which has been applied in many optimization problems so far (see [2–12]). This the- orem has been extended and improved in connection with generalization of the relaxed convex structure. Horvath[2] gave a purely topological version for this problem, replacing convex hulls with contract subsets. Continuing this approach, Park and Kim[3] proposed the gener