Abstract Convexity and Fixed Points

The purpose of this paper is to extend Himmelberg’s fixed-point theorem, replacing the usual convexity in topological vector spaces with an abstract topological notion of convexity that generalizes classical convexity as well as several metric convexity structures found in the literature. We prove the existence, under weak hypotheses, of a fixed point for a compact approachable map, and we provide sufficient conditions under which this result applies to maps whose values are convex in the abstract sense mentioned above.