Motivated by the recent work on conditional risk measures, this paper studies
the Ekeland's variational principle for a proper, lower semicontinuous and
lower bounded $\bar{L}^{0}-$valued function, where $\bar{L}^{0}$ is the set of
equivalence classes of extended real-valued random variables on a probability
space. First, we prove a general form of Ekeland's variational principle for
such a function defined on a complete random metric space. Then, we give a more
precise form of Ekeland's variational principle for such a local function on a
complete random normed module.
The purpose of this paper is to give a selective survey on recent progress in
random metric theory and its applications to conditional risk measures.
The purpose of this paper is to make a comprehensive connection between the
basic results and properties derived from the two kinds of topologies (namely
the $(\epsilon,\lambda)-$topology introduced by the author and locally
$L^{0}-$convex topology recently introduced by Filipovi$\acute{c}$ et. al) for
a random locally convex module. First, we give an extremely simple proof of the
known Hahn-Banach extension theorem of $L^{0}-$linear functions as well as its
continuous variants. Then we give the essential relations between the
hyperplane separation theorems in [Filipovi$\acute{c}$ et.