Pseudomonotonicity of an affine map and the two dimensional case

 

Anna Marchi

               

Laura Martein y

 

Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics

University of Pisa

Via Cosimo Rodolfi 10

56124 Pisa

Italy

 

Abstract

 

In this paper the pseudomonotonidty of the affine map F(x) = Mx + q on the interior of the positive orthant of <n is studied. A new characterization is suggested involving the positive and the negative polar of the cone generated by the set W¤ = fz = Mx + q, x 2 int<n +g. The obtained results are applied to the two dimensional case in order to achieve a complete characterization of pseudomonotonicity in terms of the coefficients of M and q.

 

Keywords : Pseudomonotonicity, pseudoconvexity.