Tropical convexity in Riesz spaces

Abstract

Various properties of tropical convex sets of the positive cone of a Riesz space are established. Under suitable, but standard assumptions, we show that they have fixed points properties, for single valued and multivalued maps, analogous to those associated to the usual convex sets in topological vector spaces. Selection theorems and extension theorems similar to those of Michael and Dugundji also hold and, in the appropriate setting, tropical convex sets are absolute extensors for the class of metric spaces and absolute retracts. We also give some applications to standard problems of mathematical economics: Nash equilibria, existence of elements for non transitive preference relations and existence of equilibria for abstract economies in Riesz spaces under tropical convexity assumptions. This work can be conceived as a contribution to infinite dimensional idempotent analysis.