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COINCIDENCE THEOREMS FOR FAMILIES OF MULTIMAPS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS LAI-JIU LIN AND HSIN I CHEN Received 30 October 2001 We apply some continuous selection theorems to establish coincidence theorems for a family of multimaps under various conditions. Then we apply these coin- cidence theorems to study the equilibrium problem with m families of players and 2m families of constraints on strategy sets. We establish the existence theo- rems of equilibria of this problem and existence theorem of equilibria of abstract economics with two families of players. 1. Introduction For multimaps F : X Y and S : Y X , a point (x, y ) ∈ X × Y is called a coin- cidence point of F and S if y ∈ F (x ) and x ∈ S(y ). In 1937, Neumann [19] and in 1966 Fan [8] established the well-known coincidence theorems. In 1984, Brow- der [4] combined Kakutani-Fan fixed-point theorem and Fan-Browder fixed- point theorem to obtain a coincidence theorem. So many authors gave some coincidence theorems and applied them in various fields as equilibrium prob- lem, minimax theorem, quasi-variational inequalities, game theory, mathemat- ical economics, and so on, see [1, 5, 6, 9, 11, 18] and references therein. In 1991, Horvath [10, Theorem 3.2] obtained a continuous selection theorem. In [21, Theorem 1], Wu and Shen established another continuous selection theorem. Let I and J be any index sets. For each i ∈ I and j ∈ J , let Xi and Yj be nonempty sets and H : X = X Y ; T : Y = Y X be multimaps. j i∈I i j i j ∈J j i ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ A point (x, y ) ∈ X × Y, where x = (x ) and y = (y ) is called a coincidence i i∈I j j ∈J ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ point of two fam