Abstract:This paper derives a general sufficient condition for existence and uniqueness in continuous games using a variant of the contraction mapping theorem applied to mapping from a subset of the real line on to itself. We first prove this contraction mapping variant, and then show how the existence of a unique equilibrium in the general game can be shown by proving the existence of a unique equilibrium in an iterative sequence of games involving such R mappings. Finally, we show how a general condition for this to occur is that a matrix derived from the Jacobean matrix of best-response functions be have positive leading principal minors, and how this condition generalises some existing uniqueness theorems for particular games.-to-R