Abstract

We construct a new iterative scheme by hybrid methods and prove strong convergence theorem for approximation of a common fixed point of two countable families of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings which is also a solution to a system of generalized mixed equilibrium problems in a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth using the properties of generalized -projection operator. Using this result, we discuss strong convergence theorem concerning general -monotone mappings and system of generalized mixed equilibrium problems in Banach spaces. Our results extend many known recent results in the literature.

1. Introduction

Let be a real Banach space with dual , and let be nonempty, closed and convex subset of . A mapping is called nonexpansive if A point is called a fixed point of if . The set of fixed points of is denoted by .

We denote by the normalized duality mapping from to defined by The following properties of are well known (the reader can consult [13] for more details). (1)If is uniformly smooth, then is norm-to-norm uniformly continuous on each bounded subset of . (2),  . (3)If is reflexive, then is a mapping from onto .(4)If is smooth, then is single valued.

Throughout this paper, we denote by , the functional on defined by From [4], in uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces, we have

Definition 1.1. Let be a nonempty subset of and let be a countable family of mappings from into . A point is said to be an asymptotic fixed point of if contains a sequence which converges weakly to and . The set of asymptotic fixed points of is denoted by . One says that is countable family of relatively nonexpansive mappings (see, e.g., [5]) if the following conditions are satisfied:(R1);(R2), for all ,  ,  ;(R3).

Definition 1.2. A point is said to be a strong asymptotic fixed point of if contains a sequence which converges strongly to and . The set of strong asymptotic fixed points of is denoted by . One says that a mapping is countable family of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings (see, e.g., [5]) if the following conditions are satisfied:(R1);(R2), for all ,  ,  ;(R3).

Definition 1.3. Let be a nonempty subset of and let be a mapping from into . A point is said to be an asymptotic fixed point of if contains a sequence which converges weakly to and . The set of asymptotic fixed points of is denoted by . We say that a mapping is relatively nonexpansive (see, e.g., [611]) if the following conditions are satisfied:(R1);(R2), for all ,  ;(R3).

Definition 1.4. A point is said to be an strong asymptotic fixed point of if contains a sequence which converges strongly to and . The set of strong asymptotic fixed points of is denoted by . We say that a mapping is weak relatively nonexpansive (see, e.g., [12, 13]) if the following conditions are satisfied:(R1);(R2), for all ,  ;(R3).

Definition 1.3 (Definition 1.4) is a special form of Definition 1.1 (Definition 1.2) as , for all . Furthermore, Su et al. [5] gave an example which is a countable family of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings but not a countable family of relatively nonexpansive mappings. It is obvious that relatively nonexpansive mapping is weak relatively nonexpansive mapping. In fact, for any mapping , we have . Therefore, if is relatively nonexpansive mapping, then . Kang et al. [12] gave an example of a weak relatively nonexpansive mapping which is not relatively nonexpansive.

Let be a bifunction, a mapping and a real-valued function. The generalized mixed equilibrium problem is to find (see, e.g., [1419]) such that for all . We will denote the solutions set of (1.5) by . Thus If and , then problem (1.5) reduces to an equilibrium problem studied by many authors (see, e.g., [2028]), which is to find such that for all . We shall denote the solutions set of (1.7) by .

If and (a real Hilbert space), then problem (1.5) reduces to a generalized equilibrium problem studied by many authors (see, e.g., [2931]), which is to find such that for all .

If and , then problem (1.5) reduces to mixed equilibrium problem considered by many authors (see, e.g., [3234]), which is to find such that for all .

The mixed equilibrium problems include fixed point problems, optimization problems, variational inequality problems, Nash equilibrium problems, and equilibrium problems as special cases (see, e.g., [35]). Some methods have been proposed to solve the mixed equilibrium problem (see, e.g., [33, 34, 36]). Numerous problems in physics, optimization and economics reduce to find a solution of problem (1.8).

In [9], Matsushita and Takahashi introduced a hybrid iterative scheme for approximation of fixed points of relatively nonexpansive mapping in a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth: , They proved that converges strongly to , where .

In [37], Plubtieng and Ungchittrakool introduced the following hybrid projection algorithm for a pair of relatively nonexpansive mappings: , where , , , and are sequences in satisfying and and are relatively nonexpansive mappings and is the single-valued duality mapping on . They proved under the appropriate conditions on the parameters that the sequence generated by (1.11) converges strongly to a common fixed point of and .

In [10], Takahashi and Zembayashi introduced the following hybrid iterative scheme for approximation of fixed point of relatively nonexpansive mapping which is also a solution to an equilibrium problem in a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth: , , , where is the duality mapping on . Then, they proved that converges strongly to , where .

Recently, Li et al. [38] introduced the following hybrid iterative scheme for approximation of fixed points of a relatively nonexpansive mapping using the properties of generalized -projection operator in a uniformly smooth real Banach space which is also uniformly convex: , They proved a strong convergence theorem for finding an element in the fixed points set of . We remark here that the results of Li et al. [38] extended and improved on the results of Matsushita and Takahashi [9].

Quite recently, motivated by the results of Matsushita and Takahashi [9] and Plubtieng and Ungchittrakool [37], Su et al. [5] proved the following strong convergence theorem by hybrid iterative scheme for approximation of common fixed point of two countable families of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings in uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach space.

Theorem 1.5. Let be a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth. Let be a nonempty, closed and convex subset of . Suppose and are two countable families of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings of into itself such that . Suppose that is iteratively generated by , with the conditions(i);(ii);(iii) for some .
Then, converges strongly to .

Motivated by the above-mentioned results and the ongoing research, it is our purpose in this paper to prove a strong convergence theorem for two countable families of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings in a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth using the properties of generalized -projection operator. Our results extend the results of Li et al. [38], Su et al. [5] and many other recent known results in the literature.

2. Preliminaries

Let be a real Banach space. The modulus of smoothness of is the function defined by is uniformly smooth if and only if Let . 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 . A normed space is called strictly convex if for all ,  ,  , we have , for all .

Let be a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive real Banach space and let be a nonempty, closed and convex subset of . Following Alber [39], the generalized projection from onto is defined by The existence and uniqueness of follows from the property of the functional and strict monotonicity of the mapping (see, e.g., [3, 4, 3941]). If is a Hilbert space, then is the metric projection of onto .

Next, we recall the concept of generalized -projector operator, together with its properties. Let be a functional defined as follows: where ,  ,   is a positive number and is proper, convex and lower semi-continuous. From the definitions of and , it is easy to see the following properties:(i) is convex and continuous with respect to when is fixed;(ii) is convex and lower semi-continuous with respect to when is fixed.

Definition 2.1 (Wu and Huang [42]). Let be a real Banach space with its dual . Let be a nonempty, closed and convex subset of . One says that is a generalized -projection operator if

For the generalized -projection operator, Wu and Huang [42] proved the following theorem basic properties.

Lemma 2.2 (Wu and Huang [42]). Let be a real reflexive Banach space with its dual . Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of . Then the following statements hold:(i) is a nonempty closed convex subset of for all ;(ii)if is smooth, then for all ,   if and only if (iii)if is strictly convex and is positive homogeneous (i.e., for all such that where ), then is a single valued mapping.

Fan et al. [43] showed that the condition is positive homogeneous which appeared in Lemma 2.2 and can be removed.

Lemma 2.3 (Fan et al. [43]). Let be a real reflexive Banach space with its dual and a nonempty, closed and convex subset of . Then if is strictly convex, then is a single-valued mapping.

Recall that is a single valued mapping when is a smooth Banach space. There exists a unique element such that for each . This substitution in (4.3) gives Now, we consider the second generalized -projection operator in a Banach space.

Definition 2.4. Let be a real Banach space and a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of . One says that is a generalized -projection operator if

Obviously, the definition of is a countably family of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings is equivalent to;, for all ,  ,  ;.

Lemma 2.5 (Li et al. [38]). Let be a Banach space and a lower semi-continuous convex functional. Then there exists and such that

We know that the following lemmas hold for operator .

Lemma 2.6 (Li et al. [38]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a smooth and reflexive Banach space . Then the following statements hold:(i) is a nonempty closed and convex subset of for all ;(ii)for all ,  if and only if (iii)if is strictly convex, then is a single-valued mapping.

Lemma 2.7 (Li et al. [38]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a smooth and reflexive Banach space . Let and . Then

Lemma 2.8 (Su et al. [5]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a smooth, strictly convex Banach space . Let be a weak relatively nonexpansive mapping of into itself. Then is closed and convex.

Also, this following lemma will be used in the sequel.

Lemma 2.9 (Kamimura and Takahashi [4]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a smooth, uniformly convex Banach space . Let and be sequences in such that either or is bounded. If , then .

Lemma 2.10 (Cho et al. [44]). Let be a uniformly convex real Banach space. For arbitrary , let and such that . Then, there exists a continuous strictly increasing convex function such that for every , the following inequality holds:

For solving the equilibrium problem for a bifunction , let us assume that satisfies the following conditions:(A1) for all ;(A2) is monotone, that is, for all ;(A3)for each , ;(A4)for each ,  is convex and lower semicontinuous.

Lemma 2.11 (Liu et al. [14] and Zhang [19]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space . Assume that satisfies (A1)–(A4), a continuous and monotone mapping, and a lower semicontinuous and convex functional. For and , there exists such that where ,. Furthermore, define a mapping as follows: Then, the following hold:(i) is single-valued;(ii)for any , (iii);(iv) is closed and convex.

Lemma 2.12 (Zhang [19]). Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a smooth, strictly convex, and reflexive Banach space . Assume that satisfies (A1)–(A4), and let . Then for each and ,

For the rest of this paper, the sequence converges strongly to shall be denoted by as , and we shall assume that such that , for all .

3. Main Results

Theorem 3.1. Let be a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth. Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of . For each , let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4), a continuous and monotone mapping and a lower semicontinuous and convex functional. Suppose that and are two countable families of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings of into itself such that . Let be a convex and lower semicontinuous mapping with , and suppose that is iteratively generated by ,  , with the conditions(i);(ii);(iii) for some ;(iv),   satisfying ,  . Then, converges strongly to .

Proof. By Lemma 2.8, we know that is closed and convex. We also know from Lemma 2.11(iv) that is closed and convex. Hence, is a nonempty, closed and convex subset of . Consequently, is well defined. We first show that , for all is closed and convex. It is obvious that is closed and convex. Thus, we only need to show that is closed and convex for each . Since is equivalent to this implies that is closed and convex for all . This shows that is well defined for all . By taking , and for all , we obtain . We next show that , for all . For , we have . Then for each , we obtain So, . This implies that , for all . It follows that is well defined for all .
We now show that exists. Since is a convex and lower semi-continuous, applying Lemma 2.5, we see that there exists and such that It follows that Since , it follows from (3.5) that for each . This implies that is bounded and so is . By the construction of , we have that and for any positive integer . It then follows from Lemma 2.7 that It is obvious that In particular, and so is nondecreasing. It follows that the limit of exists. By the fact that and for any positive integer , we obtain Now, (3.7) implies that Taking the limit as in (3.11), we obtain It then follows from Lemma 2.9 that as . Hence, is Cauchy. Since is a Banach space and is closed and convex, then there exists such that as .
Now since as we have in particular that as and this further implies that . Since , we have Then, we obtain Since is uniformly convex and smooth, we have from Lemma 2.9 that So, Hence, Since is uniformly norm-to-norm continuous on bounded sets and , we obtain Since is bounded, so are , , and . Let . Then from Lemma 2.10, we have It then follows that But From and , we obtain Using the condition , we have By property of , we have . Since is also uniformly norm-to-norm continuous on bounded sets, we have Similarly, we can show that Since and , are uniformly closed, we have .
Next, we show that . Now, by Lemma 2.12, we obtain Using Lemma 2.9, we have . Furthermore, Since as and as , then as . By the fact that , is relatively nonexpansive and using Lemma 2.12 again, we have that Observe that Using (3.29) in (3.28), we obtain Then Lemma 2.9 implies that ,  . Now Similarly, ,  . This further implies that Also, since is uniformly norm-to-norm continuous on bounded sets and using (3.32), we obtain Since ,  , By Lemma 2.11, we have that for each Furthermore, using (A2) we obtain By (A4), (3.34), and , we have for each For fixed , let for all . This implies that . This yields that . It follows from (A1) and (A4) that and hence From condition (A3), we obtain This implies that ,  . Thus, . Hence, we have .
Finally, we show that . Since is a closed and convex set, from Lemma 2.6, we know that is single valued and denote . Since and , we have We know that is convex and lower semi-continuous with respect to when is fixed. This implies that From the definition of and , we see that . This completes the proof.

Corollary 3.2 (Li et al. [38]). Let be a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth. Let be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of . Suppose that is a relatively nonexpansive mapping of into itself such that and is a convex and lower semicontinuous mapping with . Suppose that is iteratively generated by ,   where is the duality mapping on . Suppose that is a sequence in such that . Then, converges strongly to .

Corollary 3.3. Let be a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth. Let be a nonempty, closed and convex subset of . For each , let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4), a continuous and monotone mapping and a lower semicontinuous and convex functional. Suppose and are two countable families of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings of into itself such that . Suppose that is iteratively generated by ,   with the conditions(i);(ii);(iii) for some ; (iv),   satisfying , . Then, converges strongly to .

Proof. Take for all in Theorem 3.1, and . Then, the desired conclusion follows.

Remark 3.4. Corollary 3.3 extends and improves on Theorem 1.5. In fact, the iterative procedure (3.44) is simpler than (1.14) in the following two aspects: (a) the process of computing is removed; (b) the process of computing is replaced by computing .

4. Applications

A mapping from to is said to be (i)monotone if , for all ;(ii)strictly monotone if is monotone and if and only if ;(iii)-Lipschitz continuous if there exists a constant such that , for all .

Let be a set-valued mapping from to with domain and range . A set-valued mapping is said to be (i)monotone if for each and ,  ;(ii)-strongly monotone if for each and ,  ;(iii)maximal monotone if is monotone and its graph is not properly contained in the graph of any other monotone operator;(iv)a general -monotone if is monotone and holds for every , where is a mapping from to .

We denote the set by . From Li et al. [38], we know that if is strictly monotone and is general -monotone mapping, then is closed and convex. Furthermore, for every and , there exists a unique such that . Thus, we can define a single-value mapping by . It is obvious that for all .

Lemma 4.1 (Alber, [39]). If is a uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach space, is the modulus of convexity of , and is the modulus of smoothness of , then the inequalities hold for all and in , where .

Lemma 4.2 (Xia and Huang [45]). Let be a Banach space with dual space a strictly monotone mapping, and a general -monotone mapping. Then(i) is a single-valued mapping;(ii)if is reflexive and is -strongly monotone, is Lipschitz continuous with constant , where .

Theorem 4.3. Let be a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth with and for some . For each , let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4), a continuous and monotone mapping, and a lower semicontinuous and convex functional. Suppose that is a strictly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous mapping and is a general -monotone mapping and -strongly monotone mapping with ,   such that . Let ,  , let a convex and lower semicontinuous mapping with and suppose for each that there exists a such that . Let be iteratively generated by ,  , with the conditions(i);(ii);(iii); (iv); (v),   satisfying , . Then, converges strongly to .

Proof. We only need to prove that and are countable families of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings with common fixed points sets and , respectively. Firstly, we have . Secondly, we show that , for all ,  ,  . Now, by Lemma 4.2 and the Lipschitz continuity of , we have By (4.3) and Lemma 4.1, Since , it follows from (4.4) that , for all , , . Thirdly, we show that . We first show that . Let , then there exists such that and . Since is -Lipschitz continuous, Letting , we obtain It follows from and the monotonicity of that for all and .Taking the limit as , we obtain for all and . By the maximality of , we know that . On the other hand, we know that , for all , therefore, . Thus, we have proved that is a countable family of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings with common fixed points sets . By following the same arguments, we can show that is a countable family of weak relatively nonexpansive mappings with common fixed points sets .

Let be a uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach space, and a maximal monotone mapping. Then, we can define for all . We know that is relatively nonexpansive and therefore weak relatively nonexpansive and for all (see, e.g., [2]), where denotes the fixed points set of . By Corollary 3.3, we obtain the following theorem.

Theorem 4.4. Let be a uniformly convex real Banach space which is also uniformly smooth. For each , let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4), a continuous and monotone mapping, and a lower semicontinuous and convex functional. For each , let a maximal monotone operator, and let for all , and suppose is a nonempty closed and convex subset of such that ,  . Assume that and let be iteratively generated by ,  , with the conditions(i);(ii);(iii); (iv); (v),  satisfying , . Then, converges strongly to .

Acknowledgments

The author would like to express his thanks to the referees for their valuable suggestions. This research work is dedicated to Professor Isaac U. Asuzu of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.