Article ID: | iaor19942479 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 61 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 327 |
End Page Number: | 343 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1993 |
Journal: | Mathematical Programming (Series A) |
Authors: | Eaves B. Curtis, Rothblum Uriel G. |
A convex valued, upper continuous multifunction with pointed closed convex domain is proved to be onto, if there is a selection with certain coercive properties and if the selection for each point lies in the affine hull of the smallest face of the domain containing the point. The proof uses a piecewise affine homotopy construction. The authors apply the ‘onto’ theorem to an approximation of a network of servers and shows that arbitrary congestion levels can be realized with appropriate arrival levels.