Abstract

We modify the iterative method introduced by Kim and Xu (2006) for a countable family of Lipschitzian mappings by the hybrid method of Takahashi et al. (2008). Our results include recent ones concerning asymptotically nonexpansive mappings due to Plubtieng and Ungchittrakool (2007) and Zegeye and Shahzad (2008, 2010) as special cases.

1. Introduction

Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . A mapping is said to be Lipschitzian if there exists a positive constant such that In this case, is also said to be -Lipschitzian. Clearly, if is -Lipschitzian and , then is -Lipschitzian. Throughout the paper, we assume that every Lipschitzian mapping is -Lipschitzian with . If , then is known as a nonexpansive mapping. We denote by the set of fixed points of . If is nonempty bounded closed convex and is a nonexpansive of into itself, then (see [1]). There are many methods for approximating fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping. In 1953, Mann [2] introduced the iteration as follows: a sequence defined by where the initial guess element is arbitrary and is a real sequence in . Mann iteration has been extensively investigated for nonexpansive mappings. One of the fundamental convergence results is proved by Reich [3]. In an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, Mann iteration can conclude only weak convergence [4]. Attempts to modify the Mann iteration method (1.2) so that strong convergence is guaranteed have recently been made. Nakajo and Takahashi [5] proposed the following modification of Mann iteration method (1.2): where denotes the metric projection from onto a closed convex subset of . They prove that if the sequence bounded above from one, then defined by (1.3) converges strongly to . Takahashi et al. [6] modified (1.3) so-called the shrinking projection method for a countable family of nonexpansive mappings as follows: and prove that if the sequence bounded above from one, then defined by (1.4) converges strongly to .

Recently, the present authors [7] extended (1.3) to obtain a strong convergence theorem for common fixed points of a countable family of -Lipschitzian mappings by where as and prove that defined by (1.5) converges strongly to .

In this paper, we establish strong convergence theorems for finding common fixed points of a countable family of Lipschitzian mappings in a real Hilbert space. Moreover, we also apply our results for asymptotically nonexpansive mappings.

2. Preliminaries

Let be a real Hilbert space with inner product and norm . Then, for all and . For any points in , the following generalized identity holds: where and .

We write (, resp.) if converges strongly (weakly, resp.) to . It is also known that satisfies: (1)the Opial's condition [8] that is, for any sequence with , holds for every with (2)the Kadec-Klee property [9, 10]; that is, for any sequence with and together imply .

Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of . Then, for any , there exists a unique nearest point in , denoted by , such that Such a mapping is called the metric projection of onto . We know that is nonexpansive. Furthermore, for and , To deal with a family of mappings, the following conditions are introduced: let be a subset of a Banach space, let and be families of mappings of with , where is the set of all common fixed points of all mappings in . is said to satisfy (a)the AKTT-condition [11] if for each bounded subset of , (b)the NST-condition (I) with [12] if for each bounded sequence in , (c)the NST-condition (II) [12] if for each bounded sequence in , (d)NST*-condition with [13] if for each bounded sequence in , imply for all .

In particular, if , then we simply say that satisfies the NST-condition (I) with (NST*-condition with , resp.) rather than NST-condition (I) with (NST*-condition with , resp.).

Remark 2.1. It follows directly from the definitions above that (i)if satisfies the NST-condition (I) with , then satisfies the NST*-condition with (ii)if satisfies the NST-condition (II), then satisfies the NST*-condition with .

Lemma 2.2 . (see [11, Lemma 3.2]). Let be a nonempty closed subset of a Banach space, and let be a family of mappings of into itself which satisfies the AKTT-condition, then the mapping defined by satisfies for each bounded subset of .

From now on, we will write satisfies AKTT-condition if satisfies AKTT-condition and is defined by (2.11).

Lemma 2.3 . (see [13, Lemma 2.6]). Let be a nonempty closed subset of a Banach space. Suppose that satisfies AKTT-condition and . Then, satisfies the NST-condition (I) with . Consequently, satisfies the NST*-condition with .

Remark 2.4. There are families of mappings and such that (1) satisfies the NST*-condition with , and (2) fails the NST-condition (I) with and the NST-condition (II).

The following example shows that the NST*-condition with is strictly weaker than NST-condition (I) with and the NST-condition (II).

Example 2.5 (see [13, Example 2.9]). Let and . Define as follows: for all . Hence, and are nonexpansive mappings with Let . Then, satisfies NST*-condition but it fails NST-condition (I) with and the NST-condition (II).

Lemma 2.6. Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let and be two families of -Lipschitzian and -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself, respectively. Let be a family of mappings of into itself defined by where is a sequence in for some and is an identity mapping. Assume that and are two sequences such that and . Then, the following statements hold. (i) is a family of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself, where and . (ii)Suppose that and are families of mappings of into itself such that , and . If and satisfy the NST*-condition with and , respectively, then satisfies the NST*-condition with and

Proof. (i) We first observe that for all . That is, is -Lipschitzian. Since and , it follows that .
(ii) Let be a bounded sequence in such that . Let , and let . Then for all . In particular, So, we get Since satisfies the NST*-condition with , we have Since it follows that Since satisfies the NST*-condition with , we have It is easy to see that . To see the reverse inclusion, let follow the first part of the proof above but now let . Then, . Hence, satisfies the NST*-condition with .

Lemma 2.7. Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be families of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself for , respectively. Let be a family of mappings of into itself defined by where are sequences in for some satisfying for all . Assume that are sequences such that as for all . Then, the following statements hold. (i) is a family of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself, where and . (ii)Suppose that are families of mappings of into itself such that for and . If satisfies the NST*-condition with for all , then satisfies the NST*-condition with and

Proof. (i) From (2.3), we have for all . That is, is -Lipschitzian. Since for and , it follows that .
(ii) Let be a bounded sequence in such that . Let , and let ; it follows from (2.3) that So, by (i), we get For each , we have Since each family satisfies the NST*-condition with , It is easy to see that . To see the reverse inclusion, let . Follow the first part of the proof above but now let . Then, . Hence, satisfies the NST*-condition with .

Lemma 2.8. Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space , and let be a family of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself with and . If satisfies the NST*-condition with , where is a family of mappings of into itself such that , then is closed and convex.

Proof. It follows from the continuity of that is closed and so is . Now, we prove that is convex. To this end, let . Put , where . From (2.2), we have So, we get Since satisfies the NST*-condition with , we have for all . Then, and so is convex.

Remark 2.9. The conclusions of Lemmas 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8 remain true if we replace a Hilbert space with a uniformly convex Banach space. Recall a Banach space is uniformly convex if for any , there exists such that and imply .

3. Main Results

In this section, using the method introduced by Takahashi et al. [6], we obtain a strong convergence theorem for a countable family of Lipschitzian mappings.

Recall that a mapping is closed (demiclosed, resp.) at if whenever is a sequence in satisfying (, resp.) and , then and .

Theorem 3.1. Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a family of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself with a common fixed point. Assume that is a sequence in for some . For and , one defines a sequence of as follows: where Suppose that is a family of mappings of into itself such that and is closed at 0 for all . If satisfies the NST*-condition with , then converges strongly to .

Proof. By Lemma 2.8, we have is closed and convex. We now prove that is closed and convex for each by induction. It is obvious that is closed and convex. Assume that is closed and convex for some . For , we know that is equivalent to It follows that is closed and convex. Next, we show that It is clear that . Suppose that for some . Then, for , we have . Therefore, we obtain (3.5). Now, the sequence is well defined. As , In particular, since , On the other hand, from and , we have Therefore, is nondecreasing and bounded. So, Noticing again that and for any positive integer , , we have It follows from (2.1) that It then follows from the existence of that is a Cauchy sequence. Moreover, We now assume that for some . Now, since and , which implies that From , we get Since satisfies the NST*-condition with , we have Since is closed at 0 for all , we have . This implies that . Furthermore, by (3.8), Hence, . This completes the proof.

Lemma 3.2 . (see [9, Theorem 10.4]). Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space, and let be a nonexpansive mapping. Then, is demiclosed at 0.

It is not difficult to see from the proof of Theorem 3.1 that the boundedness of can be discarded if is a family of nonexpansive mappings. So, we immediately obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 3.3. Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let and be two families of nonexpansive mappings of into itself such that and suppose that satisfies the NST*-condition with . Assume that is a sequence in for some . Then, the sequence in defined by (1.4) converges strongly to .

Remark 3.4. Theorem 3.3 includes [6, Theorem 3.3] as a special case since the NST-condition (I) with implies the NST*-condition with .

Theorem 3.5. Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a family of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself with a common fixed point. Suppose that is a family of mappings from into itself such that and is demiclosed at 0 for all . Assume that is a sequence in for some . If satisfies the NST*-condition with , then the sequence in defined by (1.5) converges strongly to .

Proof. The proof is analogous to the proof of [7, Theorem 10] and Theorem 3.1, so it is omitted.

4. Deduced Results

Let be a subset of a real Hilbert space . A mapping is said to be an asymptotically nonexpansive if there exists a sequence of real numbers such that , , and The class of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings was introduced by Goebel and Kirk [14] as an important generalization of the class of nonexpansive mappings. They proved that if is nonempty bounded closed convex and is an asymptotically nonexpansive self-mapping of , then has a fixed point.

In this section, we use the NST*-condition to obtain recent results proved by Kim and Xu [15], Plubtieng and Ungchittrakool [16], and Zegeye and Shahzad [17, 18]. We start with the following auxiliary result.

Lemma 4.1. Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Hilbert space , and let be an asymptotically nonexpansive mappings of into itself with a sequence in satisfying and . Then, is a family of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself and satisfies the NST*-condition with .

Proof. We note that is a family of -Lipschitzian mappings of into itself. Let be a bounded sequence in such that Since it follows that It is easy to see that . To see the reverse inclusion, let following from the first part of the proof above, but now let . Then, , and hence . This implies that satisfies the NST*-condition with .

Lemma 4.2 . (see [19]). Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a Hilbert space , and let be an asymptotically nonexpansive mappings of into itself. Then, is demiclosed at 0.

Using Theorem 3.1 and Lemmas 2.6 and 4.1, we have the following result.

Theorem 4.3. Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space , and let , be two asymptotically nonexpansive mappings of into itself with sequences and , respectively, and . Assume that is a sequence in and is a sequence in for some . For and , one defines a sequence of as follows: where Then, converges strongly to .

Using Theorem 3.5 and Lemmas 2.6 and 4.1, we have the following result.

Theorem 4.4 . (see [16, Theorem 3.1]). Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space , and let , be two asymptotically nonexpansive mappings of into itself with sequences and , respectively, and . Assume that is a sequence in and is a sequence in for some . For , one defines a sequence of as follows: where Then, converges strongly to .

Using Theorem 3.1 and Lemmas 2.7 and 4.1, we have the following result.

Theorem 4.5. Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a finite family of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings of into itself with sequences for , respectively, and suppose that . Assume that are sequences in such that , for some and for all . For and , one defines a sequence of as follows: where Then, converges strongly to .

Using Theorem 3.5 and Lemmas 2.7 and 4.1, we have the following two results which were proved by Zegeye and Shahzad [17, 18].

Theorem 4.6. Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a finite family of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings of with sequences for , respectively, and suppose that . Assume that are sequences in such that , for some and for all . For , one defines a sequence of as follows: where Then, converges strongly to .

Theorem 4.7. Let be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a finite family of asymptotically nonexpansive semigroups such that . Assume that are sequences in such that for some and for all . Let be finite positive and divergent real sequences. For , one defines a sequence of as follows: where with . Then converges strongly to .

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the referee for the insightful comments and suggestions. The second author was supported by the Commission on Higher Education, the Thailand Research Fund, and Khon Kaen University under Grant no. RMU5380039.