Optimization based methods for solving the equilibrium problems with applications in variational inequality problems and solution of nash equilibrium models

Abstract

In this paper, we propose two modified two-step proximal methods that are formed through the proximal-like mapping and inertial effect for solving two classes of equilibrium problems. A weak convergence theorem for the first method and the strong convergence result of the second method are well established based on the mild condition on a bifunction. Such methods have the advantage of not involving any line search procedure or any knowledge of the Lipschitz-type constants of the bifunction. One practical reason is that the stepsize involving in these methods is updated based on some previous iterations or uses a stepsize sequence that is non-summable. We consider the well-known Nash-Cournot equilibrium models to support our well-established convergence results and see the advantage of the proposed methods over other well-known methods.