Abstract

Let be a real Banach space which is uniformly smooth and uniformly convex. Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex sunny nonexpansive retract of , where is the sunny nonexpansive retraction. If admits weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping , path convergence is proved for a nonexpansive mapping . As an application, we prove strong convergence theorem for common zeroes of a finite family of -accretive mappings of to . As a consequence, an iterative scheme is constructed to converge to a common fixed point (assuming existence) of a finite family of pseudocontractive mappings from to under certain mild conditions.

1. Introduction

Let be a real Banach space with dual and a nonempty, closed and convex subset of . A mapping is said to be nonexpansive if for all , we have A point is called a fixed point of if . The fixed points set of is the set .

Construction of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings is an important subject in nonlinear mapping theory and its applications; in particular, in image recovery and signal processing (see, e.g., [13]). Many authors have worked extensively on the approximation of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings. For example, the reader can consult the recent monographs of Berinde [4] and Chidume [5].

We denote by the normalized duality mapping from to defined by where denotes the generalized duality pairing between members of and . It is well known that if is strictly convex then is single valued (see, e.g., [5, 6]). In the sequel, we will denote the single-valued normalized duality mapping by .

A mapping is called accretive if, for all , there exists such that By the results of Kato [7], (1.3) is equivalent to If is a Hilbert space, accretive mappings are also called monotone. A mapping is called m-accretive if it is accretive and , range of , is for all ; and is said to satisfy the range condition if , where denotes the closure of the domain of . is said to be maximal accretive if it is accretive and the inclusion , where is a graph of , with accretive, implies . It is known (see e.g., [8]) that every maximal accretive mapping is -accretive and the converse holds if is a Hilbert space. Interest in accretive mappings stems mainly from their firm connection with equations of evolution. It is known (see, e.g., [9]) that many physically significant problems can be modelled by initial-value problems of the following form: where is an accretive mapping in an appropriate Banach space. Typical examples where such evolution equations occur can be found in the heat, wave, or Schrödinger equations. One of the fundamental results in the theory of accretive mappings, due to Browder [10], states that if is locally Lipschitzian and accretive, then is accretive. This result was subsequently generalized by Martin [11] to the continuous accretive mappings. If in (1.5), is independent of , then (1.5) reduces to whose solutions correspond to the equilibrium points of the system (1.5). Consequently, considerable research effects have been devoted, especially within the past 30 years or so, to iterative methods for approximating these equilibrium points.

Closely related to the class of accretive mappings is the class of pseudocontractive mappings. A mapping with domain in and range in is called pseudocontractive if is accretive. It is then clear that any zero of is a fixed point of . Consequently, the study of approximating fixed points of pseudocontractive mappings, which correspond to equilibrium points of the system (1.5), became a flourishing area of research for numerous mathematicians (see, e.g., [1214] and the references therein).

It is not difficult to deduce from (1.4) that the mapping is accretive if and only if , is nonexpansive on the range of . Thus, in particular, is nonexpansive and single valued on the range of . Furthermore, . It is well known that every nonexpansive mapping is pseudocontractive and the converse does not, however, hold.

Very recently, Yao et al. [15] proved path convergence for a nonexpansive mapping in a real Hilbert space. In particular, they proved the following theorem.

Theorem 1.1 (Yao et al. [15]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a nonexpansive mapping with . For , let the net be generated by , then as the net converges strongly to a fixed point of .

Furthermore, they applied Theorem 1.1 to prove the following theorem.

Theorem 1.2 (Yao et al. [15]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a nonexpansive mapping such that . Let and be two real sequences in . For an arbitrary , let the sequence be generated iteratively by Suppose that the following conditions are satisfied:(a) and ,(b),
then the sequence generated by (1.7) converges strongly to a fixed point of .

Motivated by the results of Yao et al. [15], we proved path convergence for a nonexpansive mapping in a uniformly smooth real Banach space which is also uniformly convex and admits weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping . As an application, a strong convergence is proved for common zeroes of a finite family of -accretive mappings of to . As a consequence, an iterative scheme is constructed to converge to a common fixed point (assuming existence) of a finite family of pseudocontractive mappings from to under certain mild conditions.

2. Preliminaries

Let be a real Banach space and let . is said to have a Gâteaux differentiable norm (and is called smooth) if the limit

exists for each ; is said to have a uniformly Gâteaux differentiable norm if for each the limit is attained uniformly for . Further, is said to be uniformly smooth if the limit exists uniformly for . The modulus of smoothness of is defined by

is equivalently said to be smooth if , for any .

Let dim . The modulus of convexity of is the function defined by

is uniformly convex if for any , there exists a such that if with and , then . Equivalently, is uniformly convex if and only if for all . is called strictly convex if for all , we have . It is known that every uniformly convex Banach space is reflexive.

Let be closed and convex and be a mapping of onto . Then is said to be sunny if for all and . A mapping of into is said to be a retraction if . If a mapping is a retraction, then for every , where is the range of . A subset of is said to be a sunny nonexpansive retract of if there exists a sunny nonexpansive retraction of onto and it is said to be a nonexpansive retract of if there exists a nonexpansive retraction of onto . If , the metric projection is a sunny nonexpansive retraction from to any closed and convex subset of . But this is not true in a general Banach spaces. We note that if is smooth and is retraction of onto , then is sunny and nonexpansive if and only if for each and we have , (see [1618] for more details).

A mapping with domain and range in is said to be demiclosed at if whenever is a sequence in such that and then .

Suppose that is single valued. Then, is said to be weakly sequentially continuous if for each which converges weakly to implies converges in weak to .

We need the following lemmas in the sequel.

Lemma 2.1 (Browder [19], Goebel and Kirk [20]). Let be a real uniformly convex Banach space and let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of and is a nonexpansive mapping such that , then, is demiclosed at zero.

Lemma 2.2 (Suzuki [21]). Let and be bounded sequences in a Banach space and let be a sequence in with . Suppose that for all integers and , then .

Lemma 2.3 (Chidume [5], Reich [22]). Let be a uniformly real smooth Banach space, then there exists a nondecreasing continuous function with and for such that for all , the following inequality holds:

Lemma 2.4 (Xu [23]). Let be a sequence of nonnegative real numbers which satisfies the following relation: where and is a sequence in satisfying the following: (i),(ii), then, as .

Lemma 2.5 (Cioranescu [8]). Let be a continuous accretive mapping defined on a real Banach space with , then is -accretive.

Lemma 2.6 (Zegeye and Shahzad [24]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real strictly convex Banach space . For each let be an -accretive mapping such that . Let be real numbers in such that , and let , with , then is nonexpansive and .

3. Path Convergence Theorem

Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex sunny nonexpansive retract of a uniformly smooth Banach space which is also uniformly convex where is the sunny nonexpansive retraction of onto . Let be nonexpansive. For each we define the mapping by We will show that is a contraction.

From (3.1), we have which implies that is a contraction. Therefore, by the Banach contraction mapping principle, there exists a unique fixed point of in . That is,

Next, we prove that is bounded. Let , then using (3.3), we have

Thus, This implies that is bounded.

We next show that as , as follows:

Next, we show that is relatively norm compact as . Let be a sequence in such that as . Put . From (3.5), we obtain that

Remark 3.1. Let and be sufficiently large such that for each , where . For the next theorem, we define and assume that the function from Lemma 2.3 satisfies the following condition: .

Theorem 3.2. Let be a real Banach space which is uniformly smooth and uniformly convex and let be a nonempty, closed, and convex sunny nonexpansive retract of , where is the sunny nonexpansive retraction of onto . Let be a nonexpansive mapping with . For each , let be generated by (3.3), then as converges strongly to a fixed point of if admits weak sequential continuous duality mapping .

Proof. From (3.3), we get for , This implies that In particular, Since is bounded, without loss of generality, we can assume that converges weakly to . Using the demiclosedness property of at zero and the fact that as , we obtain that . Therefore, we can substitute for in (3.9) to obtain Using the fact that is weakly sequentially continuous, we have from the last inequality that converges strongly to . We now show that actually converges to . Suppose that converges strongly to . Put , then since as and is demiclosed at zero, we have that .
Claim 3 (). Suppose in contradiction that . Using (3.3), we obtain using similar argument as above that Thus, Interchanging and , we obtain Adding (3.12) and (3.13) yields and implies that . This completes the proof.

Corollary 3.3. Let and let be a nonempty, closed, and convex sunny nonexpansive retract of , where is the sunny nonexpansive retraction of onto . Let be a nonexpansive mapping with . For each , let be generated by (3.3) then as converges strongly to a fixed point of .

4. Iterative Methods and Convergence Theorems

Theorem 4.1. Let be a real Banach space which is uniformly smooth and uniformly convex, and let be a nonempty, closed, and convex sunny nonexpansive retract of , where is the sunny nonexpansive retraction of onto . For each , let be an -accretive mapping such that . Let and be two real sequences in . For an arbitrary , let the sequence be generated iteratively by where , with for . Suppose that the following conditions are satisfied:(a) and ,(b), then the sequence converges strongly to a common zero of if admits weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping .

Proof. By Lemma 2.6, is nonexpansive and . Now, we first show that the sequence is bounded. Let , we have from (4.1) that Hence, is bounded and is also bounded. Set . It follows that Hence, . This together with Lemma 2.2 implies that . Thus, that is, Let be defined by (3.3) for , then from Theorem , as (This is guaranteed because admits weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping). Next, we show that Now, since and are bounded, there exist such that for each and for any . Let , , and . Hence, by Lemma 2.3, we have for some and . Thus, . Therefore, Moreover, Since is bounded, we have that as and since is norm-to-weak uniformly continuous on bounded sets, we have as . Using (4.8) and (4.9), we obtain From (4.1), we have Also, from (4.1), we obtain where . Using Lemma 2.4, we get that converges strongly to . This completes the proof.

If in Theorem 4.1, we consider , the condition that each is -accretive may be replaced with continuity of each . Thus, we have this theorem.

Theorem 4.2. Let be a real Banach space which is uniformly smooth and also uniformly convex. For each , let be a continuous accretive mapping such that . Let and be two real sequences in . For an arbitrary , let the sequence be generated iteratively by where , with for . Suppose that the following conditions are satisfied:(a) and ,(b),then the sequence converges strongly to a common zero of if admits weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping .

Proof. Take in Theorem 4.1. By Lemma 2.5, we have that is -accretive for each . Then, the result follows from Theorem 4.1.

The following theorems give strong convergence to a common fixed point of a finite family of pseudocontractive mappings.

Theorem 4.3. Let be a real Banach space which is uniformly smooth and uniformly convex, and let be a nonempty, closed, and convex sunny nonexpansive retract of , where is the sunny nonexpansive retraction of onto . For each , let be a pseudocontractive mapping such that is -accretive on with . Let and be two real sequences in and for each . For an arbitrary let sequence be generated iteratively by where for . Suppose that the following conditions are satisfied:(a) and ,(b),then the sequence converges strongly to a common fixed point of if admits weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping .

Proof. Let for each . Then, clearly, and hence . Furthermore, each for is -accretive. The result follows from Theorem 4.1.

Theorem 4.4. Let be a real Banach space which is uniformly smooth and uniformly convex. For each , let be a continuous pseudocontractive mapping on such that . Let and be two real sequences in and for each . For arbitrary let sequence be generated iteratively by where for . Suppose that the following conditions are satisfied:(a) and ,(b),then the sequence converges strongly to a common fixed point of if admits weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping .

Proof. The proof follows from Theorem 4.2.

Acknowledgments

The authors are extremely grateful to Professor Simeon Reich and the anonymous referee for their valuable comments and useful suggestions which improve the presentation of this paper.