Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok 65000, Thailand
Abstract
We introduce an iterative scheme for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of a
k-strictly pseudocontractive mapping, the set of solutions of the variational inequality for an inverse-strongly monotone
mapping, and the set of solutions of the mixed equilibrium problem in a real Hilbert space. Under suitable conditions, some
strong convergence theorems for approximating a common element of the above three sets are obtained. As applications,
at the end of the paper we first apply our results to study the optimization problem and we next utilize our results to study
the problem of finding a common element of the set of fixed points of two families of finitely k-strictly pseudocontractive mapping, the set of solutions of the variational inequality, and the set of solutions of the mixed equilibrium problem. The results presented in the paper improve some recent results of Kim and Xu (2005), Yao et al. (2008), Marino et al. (2009), Liu (2009), Plubtieng and Punpaeng (2007), and
many others.
1. Introduction
Throughout this paper, we always assume that
is a real Hilbert space with inner product
and norm
, respectively,
is a nonempty closed convex subset of
. Let
be a real-valued function and let
be an equilibrium bifunction, that is,
for each
. Ceng and Yao [1] considered the following mixed equilibrium problem:
(1.1)
The set of solutions of (1.1) is denoted by
. It is easy to see that
is a solution of problem (1.1) implies that
.
In particular, if
, the mixed equilibrium problem (1.1) becomes the following equilibrium problem:
(1.2)
The set of solutions of (1.2) is denoted by
.
If
and
for all
, where
is a mapping form
into
, then the mixed equilibrium problem (1.1) becomes the following variational inequality:
(1.3)
The set of solutions of (1.3) is denoted by
. The variational inequality has been extensively studied in literature. See, for example, [2–13] and the references therein.
The problem (1.1) is very general in the sense that it includes, as special cases, optimization problems, variational inequalities, minimax problems, Nash equilibrium problem in noncooperative games and others; see for instance, [1, 2, 14, 15].
First we recall some relevant important results as follows.
In 1997, Combettes and Hirstoaga [14] introduced an iterative method of finding the best approximation to the initial data when
is nonempty and proved a strong convergence theorem. Subsequently, S. Takahashi and W. Takahashi [16] introduced an iterative scheme by the viscosity approximation method for finding a common element of the set of solutions of
and the set of fixed point points of a nonexpansive mapping. Using the idea of S. Takahashi and W. Takahashi [16], Plubtieng and Punpaeng [17] introduced an the general iterative method for finding a common element of the set of solutions of
and the set of fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping which is the optimality condition for the minimization problem in a Hilbert space. Furthermore, Yao et al. [11] introduced some new iterative schemes for finding a common element of the set of solutions of
and the set of common fixed points of finitely (infinitely) nonexpansive mappings. Very recently, Ceng and Yao [1] considered a new iterative scheme for finding a common element of the set of solutions of
and the set of common fixed points of finitely many nonexpansive mappings in a Hilbert space and obtained a strong convergence theorem which used the following condition:
(E)
is
-strongly convex and its derivative
is sequentially continuous from the weak topology to the strong topology.
Their results extend and improve the corresponding results in [6, 11, 14]. We note that the condition (E) for the function
is a very strong condition. We also note that the condition (E) does not cover the case
and
. Motivated by Ceng and Yao [1], Peng and Yao [18] introduced a new iterative scheme based on only the extragradient method for finding a common element of the set of solutions of a mixed equilibrium problem, the set of fixed points of a family of finitely nonexpansive mappings and the set of the variational inequality for a monotone Lipschitz continuous mapping. They obtained a strong convergence theorem without the condition (E) for the sequences generated by these processes.
We recall that a mapping
is said to be:
(i)
monotone if
(ii)
-Lipschitz if there exists a constant
such that
(iii)
-inverse-strongly monotone [19, 20] if there exists a positive real number
such that
(1.4)
It is obvious that any
-inverse-strongly monotone mapping
is monotone and Lipschitz continuous. Recall that a mapping
is called a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping if there exists a constant
such that
(1.5)
Note that the class of
-strictly pseudocontractive mappings strictly includes the class of nonexpansive mappings which are mappings
on
such that
(1.6)
That is,
is nonexpansive if and only if
is
-strictly pseudocontractive. We denote by
the set of fixed points of
.
Iterative methods for nonexpansive mappings have recently been applied to solve convex minimization problems; see, for example, [21–24] and the references therein. Convex minimization problems have a great impact and influence in the development of almost all branches of pure and applied sciences. A typical problem is to minimize a quadratic function over the set of the fixed points of nonexpansive mapping on a real Hilbert space:
(1.7)
where
is a linear bounded operator,
is the fixed point set of a nonexpansive mapping
and
is a given point in
. Recall that a linear bounded operator
is strongly positive if there is a constant
with property
(1.8)
Recently, Marino and Xu [25] introduced the following general iterative scheme based on the viscosity approximation method introduced by Moudafi [26]:
(1.9)
where
is a strongly positive bounded linear operator on
. They proved that if the sequence
of parameters satisfies appropriate conditions, then the sequence
generated by (1.9) converges strongly to the unique solution of the variational inequality
(1.10)
which is the optimality condition for the minimization problem
(1.11)
where
is a potential function for
for
).
Recall that the construction of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings via Manns algorithm [27] has extensively been investigated in literature; see, for example [27–32] and references therein. If
is a nonexpansive self-mapping of
, then Mann's algorithm generates, initializing with an arbitrary
, a sequence according to the recursive manner
(1.12)
where
is a real control sequence in the interval
.
If
is a nonexpansive mapping with a fixed point and if the control sequence
is chosen so that
, then the sequence
generated by Manns algorithm converges weakly to a fixed point of
. Reich [33] showed that the conclusion also holds good in the setting of uniformly convex Banach spaces with a Fréhet differentiable norm. It is well known that Reich's result is one of the fundamental convergence results. However, this scheme has only weak convergence even in a Hilbert space [34]. Therefore, many authors try to modify normal Mann's iteration process to have strong convergence; see, for example, [35–40] and the references therein.
Kim and Xu [36] introduced the following iteration process:
(1.13)
where
is a nonexpansive mapping of
into itself and
is a given point. They proved the sequence
defined by (1.13) strongly converges to a fixed point of
provided the control sequences
and
satisfy appropriate conditions.
In [41], Yao et al. also modified iterative algorithm (1.13) to have strong convergence by using viscosity approximation method. To be more precisely, they considered the following iteration process:
(1.14)
where
is a nonexpansive mapping of
into itself and
is an
-contraction. They proved the sequence
defined by (1.14) strongly converges to a fixed point of
provided the control sequences
and
satisfy appropriate conditions.
Very recently, motivated by Acedo and Xu [35], Kim and Xu [36], Marino and Xu [42], and Yao et al. [41], Marino et al. [43] introduced a composite iteration scheme as follows:
(1.15)
where
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping on 
is an
-contraction, and
is a linear bounded strongly positive operator. They proved that the iterative scheme
defined by (1.15) converges to a fixed point of
, which is a unique solution of the variational inequality (1.10) and is also the optimality condition for the minimization problem provided
and
are sequences in
satifies the following control conditions:
(C1)
(C2)
for all
and
.
Moreover, for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of a
-strictly pseudocontractive nonself mapping and the set of solutions of an equilibrium problem in a real Hilbert space, Liu [44] introduced the following iterative scheme:
(1.16)
where
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping on 
is an
-contraction and,
is a linear bounded strongly positive operator. They proved that the iterative scheme
defined by (1.16) converges to a common element of
, which solves some variation inequality problems provided
and
are sequences in
satifies the control conditions (C1) and the following conditions:
(
2)
for all 
, and
;
(C3)
.
All of the above bring us the following conjectures?
Question 1.
(i) Could we weaken or remove the control condition
on parameter
in (C1)?
(ii) Could we weaken or remove the control condition
on parameter
in (C2) and (
2)?
(iii) Could we weaken or remove the control condition
on the parameter
in (
2)?
(iv) Could we weaken the control condition (C3) on parameters
?
(v) Could we construct an iterative algorithm to approximate a common element of
?
It is our purpose in this paper that we suggest and analyze an iterative scheme for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping, the set of solutions of a variational inequality and the set of solutions of a mixed equilibrium problem in the framework of a real Hilbert space. Then we modify our iterative scheme to finding a common element of the set of common fixed points of two finite families of
-strictly pseudocontractive mappings, the set of solutions of a variational inequality and the set of solutions of a mixed equilibrium problem. Application to optimization problems which is one of the motivation in this paper is also given. The results in this paper generalize and improve some well-known results in [17, 36, 41, 43, 44].
2. Preliminaries
Let
be a real Hilbert space with norm
and inner product
and let
be a closed convex subset of
. We denote weak convergence and strong convergence by notations 
and
, respectively. It is well known that for any 
(2.1)
For every point
, there exists a unique nearest point in
, denoted by
, such that
(2.2)
is called the metric projection of
onto
It is well known that
is a nonexpansive mapping of
onto
and satisfies
(2.3)
for every
Moreover,
is characterized by the following properties:
and
(2.4)
for all
. It is easy to see that the following is true:
(2.5)
A set-valued mapping
is called monotone if for all 
and
imply
. A monotone mapping
is maximal if the graph of
of
is not properly contained in the graph of any other monotone mapping. It is known that a monotone mapping
is maximal if and only if for 
for every
implies
. Let
be a monotone map of
into
and let
be the normal cone to
at
, that is,
and define
(2.6)
Then
is the maximal monotone and
if and only if
; see [45].
The following lemmas will be useful for proving the convergence result of this paper.
Lemma 2.1 ([46]).
Assume
is a sequence of nonnegative real numbers such that
(2.7)
where
is a sequence in
and
is a sequence in
such that
(1)
(2)
or
Then
Lemma 2.2 ([47]).
Let
and
be bounded sequences in a Banach space
and let
be a sequence in
with
Suppose
for all integers
and
Then,
Lemma 2.3 ([42, Proposition 2.1]).
Assume that
is a closed convex subset of Hilbert space
, and let
be a self-mapping of
(i)
if
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping, then
satisfies the Lipscchitz condition
(2.8)
(ii)
if
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping, then the mapping
is demiclosed(at
). That is, if
is a sequence in
such that
and 
(iii)
if
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping, then the fixed point set
of
is closed and convex so that the projection
is well defined.
Lemma 2.4 ([25]).
Assume
is a strongly positive linear bounded operator on a Hilbert space
with coefficient
and
Then
The following lemmas can be obtained from Acedo and Xu [35, Proposition 2.6] easily.
Lemma 2.5.
Let
be a Hilbert space,
be a closed convex subset of
. For any integer
, assume that, for each
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping for some
. Assume that
is a positive sequence such that
. Then
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping with
.
Lemma 2.6.
Let
and
be as in Lemma 2.5. Suppose that
has a common fixed point in
. Then
.
For solving the mixed equilibrium problem, let us give the following assumptions for a bifunction
and the set
:
for all
is monotone, that is,
for all
for each 
for each
is convex and lower semicontinuous;
For each
and
, there exists a bounded subset
and
such that for any 
(2.9)
is a bounded set.
By similar argument as in [48, proof of Lemma 2.3], we have the following result.
Lemma 2.7.
Let
be a nonempty closed convex subset of
. Let
be a bifunction satifies (A1)–(A4) and let
be a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function. Assume that either (B1) or (B2) holds. For
and
, define a mapping
as follows:
(2.10)
for all
. Then, the following conditions hold:
(i)
for each
,
;
(ii)
is single- valued;
(iii)
is firmly nonexpansive, that is, for any
(iv)
(v)
is closed and convex.
3. Main Results
In this section, we derive a strong convergence of an iterative algorithm which solves the problem of finding a common element of the set of solutions of a mixed equilibrium problem, the set of fixed points of a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping of
into itself and the set of the variational inequality for an
-inverse-strongly monotone mapping of
into
in a Hilbert space.
Theorem 3.1.
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space H. Let
be a bifunction from
to
satifies (A1)–(A4) and
be a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function. Let
be a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping of
into itself. Let
be a contraction of
into itself with coefficient
an
-inverse-strongly monotone mapping of
into
such that
. Let
be a strongly bounded linear self-adjoint operator with coefficient
and
. Assume that either (B1) or (B2) holds. Given the sequences
and
in
satisfyies the following conditions
(D1)
(D2)
(D3)
for all
and
;
(D4)
for some
with
and
;
(D5)
.
Let
and
be sequences generated by
(3.1)
Then
and
converge strongly to a point
which is the unique solution of the variational inequality
(3.2)
Equivalently, one has
Proof.
Since
, we may assume, without loss of generality, that
for all
. By Lemma 2.4, we have
. We will assume that
. Observe that
is a contraction. Indeed, for all
, we have
(3.3)
Since
is complete, there exists a unique element
such that
On the other hand, since
is a linear bounded self-adjoint operator, one has
(3.4)
Observing that
(3.5)
we obtain
is positive. It follows that
(3.6)
Next, we divide the proof into six steps as follows.Step 1. First we prove that
is nonexpansive. For all
and 
(3.7)
which implies that
is nonexpansive.Step 2. Next we prove that
and
are bounded. Indeed, pick any
. From (2.5), we have
Setting
, we obtain from the nonexpansivity of
that
(3.8)
From (2.1), we have
(3.9)
so, by (3.9) and the
-strict pseudocontractivity of
, it follows that
(3.10)
that is,
(3.11)
Observe that
(3.12)
From (3.8), (3.11) and the last inequality, we have
(3.13)
It follows that
(3.14)
By simple induction, we have
(3.15)
which gives that the sequence
is bounded, so are
and
Step 3. Next we claim that
(3.16)
Notice that
(3.17)
Next, we define
(3.18)
As shown in [19], from the
-strict pseudocontractivity of
and the conditions (D4), it follows that
is a nonexpansive maping for which
.
Observing that
(3.19)
we have
(3.20)
where
is an appropriate constant such that
. Substituting (3.20) into (3.17), we obtain
(3.21)
On the other hand, from
and
we note that
(3.22)
(3.23)
Putting
in (3.22) and
in (3.23), we have
(3.24)
So, from (A2) we have
(3.25)
and hence
(3.26)
Without loss of generality, let us assume that there exists a real number
such that
for all
Then, we have
(3.27)
and hence
(3.28)
where
. It follows from (3.21) and the last inequality that
(3.29)
where
.
Define a sequence
such that
(3.30)
Then, we have
(3.31)
It follows from (3.29) that
(3.32)
Observing the conditions (D1), (D3), (D4), (D5), and taking the superior limit as
, we get
(3.33)
We can obtain
easily by Lemma 2.2. Observing that
(3.34)
we obtain
(3.35)
Hence (3.16) is proved.Step 4. Next we prove that
(3.36)
(a) First we prove that
. Observing that
(3.37)
we arrive at
(3.38)
which implies that
(3.39)
Therefore, it follows from (3.16), (D1), and (D2) that
(3.40)
(b) Next, we will show that
for any
Observe that
(3.41)
where
(3.42)
This implies that
(3.43)
It is easy to see that
and then from (3.16), we obtain
(3.44)
(c) Next we prove that
. From (2.3), we have
(3.45)
so, we obtain
(3.46)
It follows that
(3.47)
which implies that
(3.48)
Applying (3.16), (3.44),
, and
to the last inequality, we obtain that
(3.49)
It follows from (3.40) and (3.49) that
(3.50)
Then it follows from (D1), (3.49) and (3.50) that
(3.51)
For any
, we have from Lemma 2.7,
(3.52)
Hence
(3.53)
From (3.41) we observe that
(3.54)
Hence
(3.55)
Using (D1), (D2) and (3.16), we obtain
(3.56)
(d) Next we prove that
. Using Lemma 2.3 (i), we have
(3.57)
which implies that
(3.58)
By (3.16), (3.51), and (3.56), we have
(3.59)
Observing that
(3.60)
Using (3.40) and the last inequality, we obtain that
(3.61)
From Lemma 2.3(i), (3.59), and (3.61), we have
(3.62)
Hence (3.36) is proved.Step 5. We claim that
(3.63)
We choose a subsequence
of
such that
(3.64)
Since
is bounded, there exists a subsequence
of
which converges weakly to
.
Next, we show that
.
(a)We first show
. In fact, using Lemma 2.3(ii) and (3.36), we obtain that
.(b)Next, we prove
. For this purpose, let
be the maximal monotone mapping defined by (2.6):
(3.65)
For any given
, hence
. Since
we have
(3.66)
On the other hand, from
, we have
(3.67)
that is,
(3.68)
Therefore, we obtian
(3.69)
Noting that
as
and
is Lipschitz continuous, hence from (3.69), we obtain
(3.70)
Since
is maximal monotone, we have
, and hence
.(c)We show
. In fact, by
, and we have,
(3.71)
From (A2), we also have
(3.72)
and hence
(3.73)
From
and
we get
. It follows from (A4),
, and the lower semicontinuous of
that
(3.74)
For
with
and
let
Since
and
we have
and hence
So, from (A1) and (A4) and the convexity of
, we have
(3.75)
Dividing by
, we have
(3.76)
Letting
, it follows from the weakly semicontinuity of
that
(3.77)
Hence
. Therefore, the conclusion
is proved.
Consequently
(3.78)
as required. This together with (3.40) implies that
(3.79)Step 6. Finally, we show that
. Indeed, we note that
(3.80)
Since 
and
are bounded, we can take a constant
such that
(3.81)
for all
. It then follows that
(3.82)
where
(3.83)
Using (D1), and (3.79), we get
. Now applying Lemma 2.1 to (3.82), we conclude that
. From
and
, we obtain
. The proof is now complete.
By Theorem 3.1, we can obtain some new and interesting strong convergence theorems. Now we give some examples as follows.
Setting
in Theorem 3.1, we have the following result.
Corollary 3.2.
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space H. Let
be a bifunction from
to
satifies (A1)–(A4). Let
be a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping of
into itself. Let
be a contraction of
into itself with coefficient
an
-inverse-strongly monotone mapping of
into
such that
. Let
be a strongly bounded linear self-adjoint operator with coefficient
and
. Given the sequences
and
in
satisfies the following conditions
(D1)
(D2)
(D3)
for all
and
(D4)
for some
with
and
(D5)
.
Let
and
be sequences generated by
(3.84)
Then
and
converge strongly to a point
which is the unique solution of the variational inequality
(3.85)
Equivalently, one has
Setting
and
in Theorem 3.1, we have
, then the following result is obtained.
Corollary 3.3.
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space H. Let
be a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping of
into itself. Let
be a contraction of
into itself with coefficient
an
-inverse-strongly monotone mapping of
into
such that
. Let
be a strongly bounded linear self-adjoint operator with coefficient
and
. Given the sequences
and
in
satifies the following conditions
(D1)
(D2)
(D3)
for all
and
(D4)
for some
with
and
.
Let
and
be sequences generated by
(3.86)
Then
and
converge strongly to a point
which is the unique solution of the variational inequality
(3.87)
Equivalently, one has
Remark 3.4.
(i) Since the conditions (C1) and (C2) have been weakened by the conditions (D1) and (D3) respectively. Theorem 3.1 and Corollary 3.2 generalize and improve [44, Theorem 3.2].
(ii) We can remove the control condition
on the parameter
in (
2).
(iii) Since the conditions (C1) and (C2) have been weakened by the conditions (D1) and (D3) respectively. Theorem 3.1 and Corollary 3.3 generalize and improve [43, Theorem 2.1].
Setting
and
is nonexpansive in Theorem 3.1, we have the following result.
Corollary 3.5.
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space H. Let
be a bifunction from
to
satifies (A1)–(A4). Let
be a nonexpansive mapping of
into itself. Let
be a contraction of
into itself with coefficient
such that
. Let
be a strongly bounded linear self-adjoint operator with coefficient
and
. Given the sequences
and
in
satifies the following conditions
(D1)
(D2)
(D3)
.
Let
and
be sequences generated by
(3.88)
Then
and
converge strongly to a point
which is the unique solution of the variational inequality
(3.89)
Equivalently, one has
Remark 3.6.
Since the conditions
and
have been weakened by the conditions
and
, respectively. Hence Corollary 3.5 generalize, extend and improve [17, Theorem 3.3].
4. Applications
First, we will utilize the results presented in this paper to study the following optimization problem:
(4.1)
where
is a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a Hilbert space and
is a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function. We denote by Argmin
the set of solutions in (4.1). Let
for all 
and
in Theorem 3.1, then
. It follows from Theorem 3.1 that the iterative sequence
is defined by
(4.2)
where 
satisfy the conditions (D1)–(D5) in Theorem 3.1. Then the sequence
converges strongly to a solution
.
Let
for all 


and
in Theorem 3.1, then
. It follows from Theorem 3.1 that the iterative sequence
defined by
(4.3)
where
, and
satisfy the conditions (D1), (D2) and (D5), respectively in Theorem 3.1. Then the sequence
converges strongly to a solution
.
We remark that the algorithms (4.2) and (4.3) are variants of the proximal method for optimization problems introduced and studied by Martinet [49], Rockafellar [45], Ferris [50] and many others.
Next, we give the strong convergence theorem for finding a common element of the set of common fixed point of a finite family of strictly pseudocontractive mappings, the set of solutions of the variational inequality problem and the set of solutions of the mixed equilibrium problem in a Hilbert space.
Theorem 4.1.
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space H. Let
be a bifunction from
to
satifies (A1)–(A4) and
be a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function. For each
let
be a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping of
into itself for some
. Let
be a contraction of
into itself with coefficient
an
inverse-strongly monotone mapping of
into
such that
. Let
be a strongly bounded linear self-adjoint operator with coefficient
and
. Assume that either (B1) or (B2) holds. Given the sequences
and
in
satifies the following conditions
(D1)
(D2)
(D3)
for all
and
;
(D4)
for some
with
and
;
(D5)
.
Let
and
be sequences generated by
(4.4)
where
is a positive constant such that
Then both
and
converge strongly to a point
which is the unique solution of the variational inequality
(4.5)
Equivalently, one has
Proof.
Let
such that
and define
. By Lemmas 2.5 and 2.6, we conclude that
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping with
and
. From Theorem 3.1, we can obtain the desired conclusion easily.
Finally, we will apply the main results to the problem for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of two finite families of
-strictly pseudocontractive mappings, the set of solutions of the variational inequality and the set of solutions of the mixed equilibrium problem.
Let
be a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping for some
. We define a mapping
where
is a positive sequence such that
, then
is a
-inverse-strongly monotone mapping with
. In fact, from Lemma 2.5, we have
(4.6)
That is
(4.7)
On the other hand
(4.8)
Hence we have
(4.9)
This shows that
is
-inverse-strongly monotone.
Theorem 4.2.
Let
be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space
. Let
be a bifunction from
to
satifies (A1)–(A4) and
be a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function. Let
be a finite family of
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping of
into itself and
be a finite family of
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping of
into
for some
such that
. Let
be a contraction of
into itself with coefficient
. Let
be a strongly bounded linear self-adjoint operator with coefficient
and
. Assume that either (B1) or (B2) holds. Given the sequences
and
in
satifies the following conditions
(D1)
(D2)
(D3)
and
for all
and
;
(D4)
for some
with
and
;
(D5)
.
Let
and
be sequences generated by
(4.10)
where
and
are positive constants such that
and
, respectively. Then
and
converge strongly to a point
which is the unique solution of the variational inequality
(4.11)
Equivalently, we have
Proof.
Taking
in Theorem 4.1, we know that
is
-inverse strongly monotone with
. Hence,
is a monotone
-Lipschitz continuous mapping with
. From Lemma 2.6, we know that
is a
-strictly pseudocontractive mapping with
and then
by Lemma 2.6. Observe that
(4.12)
The conclusion can be obtained from Theorem 4.1.
Acknowledgments
R. Wangkeeree would like to thank The National Research Council of Thailand, Grant SC-AR-012/2552 for financial support. The authors would like to thank the referees for reading this paper carefully, providing valuable suggestions and comments, and pointing out a major error in the original version of this paper.
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