Abstract

We introduce a new iterative scheme by hybrid method for finding a common element of the set of common fixed points of infinite family of nonexpansive mappings, the set of common solutions to a system of generalized mixed equilibrium problems, and the set of solutions to a variational inequality problem in a real Hilbert space. We then prove strong convergence of the scheme to a common element of the three sets. We give some applications of our results. Our results extend important recent results.

1. Introduction

Let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . A mapping is called monotone if The variational inequality problem is to find an such that (see, e.g., [1]). We will denote the set of solutions to the variational inequality problem (1.2) by .

A mapping is called inverse-strongly monotone (see, e.g., [2, 3]) if there exists a positive real number such that , for all . For such a case, is called -inverse-strongly monotone.

A mapping is said to be nonexpansive if for all . A point is called a fixed point of if . The set of fixed points of is the set .

Let be a real-valued function and a nonlinear mapping. Suppose that into is an equilibrium bifunction. That is, , for all . The generalized mixed equilibrium problem is to find (see, e.g., [46]) such that for all . We will denote the set of solutions of this generalized mixed equilibrium problem by . Thus If , , then problem (1.4) reduces to equilibrium problem studied by many authors (see, e.g., [714]), which is to find such that for all . The set of solutions of (1.6) is denoted by .

If , then problem (1.4) reduces to generalized equilibrium problem studied by many authors (see, e.g., [1518]), which is to find such that for all . The set of solutions of (1.7) is denoted by .

If , then problem (1.4) reduces to mixed equilibrium problem considered by many authors (see, e.g., [1921]), which is to find such that for all . The set of solutions of (1.8) is denoted by .

The generalized mixed equilibrium problems include fixed point problems, optimization problems, variational inequality problems, Nash equilibrium problems, and equilibrium problems as special cases (see, e.g., [22]). Numerous problems in physics, optimization, and economics reduce to find a solution of problem (1.4). Several methods have been proposed to solve the fixed point problems, variational inequality problems, and equilibrium problems in the literature. See, for example, [2333].

One of the iterative processes (see Halpern [34]) which is often used to approximate a fixed point of a nonexpansive mapping is defined as follows. Take an initial guess arbitrarily and define recursively by where is a sequence in [0, 1]. The iteration process (1.9) has been proved to be strongly convergent both in Hilbert spaces [3436] and uniformly smooth Banach spaces [37, 38] when the sequence satisfies the conditions(i),(ii),(iii)either or .

Motivated by (1.9), Martinez-Yanes and Xu [39] introduced the following iterative scheme for a single nonexpansive mapping in a Hilbert space: where denotes the metric projection of onto a closed and convex subset of . They proved that if and , then the sequence converges strongly to .

Furthermore, algorithm (1.10) has been modified by many authors for relatively nonexpansive mappings and quasi--nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces (see, e.g., [4043]).

Recently, Ceng and Yao [44] introduced a new iterative scheme of approximating a common element of the set of solutions to mixed equilibrium problem and set of common fixed points of finite family of nonexpansive mappings in a real Hilbert space . In the proof process of their results, they imposed the following condition on a nonempty closed and convex subset of :(E)    is -strongly convex and its derivative is sequentially continuous from weak topology to the strong topology.

We remark here that this condition (E) has been used by many authors for approximation of solution to mixed equilibrium problem in a real Hilbert space (see, e.g., [45, 46]). However, it is observed that condition does not include the case and . Furthermore, Peng and Yao [19], Wangkeeree and Wangkeeree [47], and other authors replaced condition (E) with these conditions:(B1)  for each and , there exist a bounded subset and such that, for any , or(B2)   is a bounded set.

Consequently, conditions (B1) and (B2) have been used by many authors in approximating solution to generalized mixed equilibrium (mixed equilibrium) problems in a real Hilbert space (see, e.g., [19, 47]).

In [48], Takahashi et al. proved the following convergence theorem using hybrid method.

Theorem 1.1 (Takahashi et al. [48]). Let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a nonexpansive mapping of into itself such that . For , , define sequences and of as follows: Assume that satisfies . Then, converges strongly to .

Motivated by the results of Takahashi et al. [48], Kumam [49] studied the problem of approximating a common element of set of solutions to an equilibrium problem, set of solutions to variational inequality problem, and set of fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping in a real Hilbert space. In particular, he proved the following theorem.

Theorem 1.2 (Kumam [49]). Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4), and let be a -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into . Let be a nonexpansive mapping of into such that . For , , define sequences and of as follows: Assume that , , and satisfy Then, converges strongly to .

Quite recently, Chantarangsi et al. [50] proved the following convergence theorem for approximation of fixed point of a nonexpansive mapping which is also a common solution to a system of generalized mixed equilibrium problems and variational inequality problem in a real Hilbert space.

Theorem 1.3 (Chantarangsi et al. [50]). Let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let , be bifunctions from satisfying (A1)–(A4), an -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into , a -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into with assumption (B1) or (B2), and  :  a nonexpansive mapping. Let be an -Lipschitz continuous and relaxed co-coercive mapping of into , a contraction mapping with coefficient , and a strongly positive linear bounded selfadjoint operator with coefficient and . Suppose that . Let , , , and be generated by where , , , , , are three sequences in (0, 1) satisfying the following conditions:(C1)   and ,(C2)  ,(C3)   and ,(C4)   and ,(C5)   and .Then, converges strongly to .

Motivated by the ongoing research and the above-mentioned results, we modify algorithm (1.10) and introduce a new iterative scheme for finding a common element of the set of fixed points of an infinite family of nonexpansive mappings, the set of common solutions to a system of generalized mixed equilibrium problems, and the set of solutions to a variational inequality problem in a real Hilbert space. Furthermore, we show that our new iterative scheme converges strongly to a common element of the three sets. In the proof process of our results, we use conditions (B1) and (B2) mentioned above. Our result extends many important recent results. Finally, we give some applications of our results.

2. Preliminaries

Let be a real Hilbert space with inner product and norm , and let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of . The strong convergence of to is written as .

For any point , there exists a unique point such that is called the metric projection of onto . We know that is a nonexpansive mapping of onto . It is also known that satisfies for all . Furthermore, is characterized by the properties and for all and In the context of the variational inequality problem, (2.3) implies that If is an -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into , then it is obvious that is a -Lipschitz continuous. We also have that, for all and , So, if , then is a nonexpansive mapping of into .

For solving the generalized mixed equilibrium problem for a bifunction  : , let us assume that , , and satisfy the following conditions:(A1) for all ,(A2) is monotone, that is, for all ,(A3) for each , ,(A4) for each , is convex and lower semicontinuous,(B1) for each and there exist a bounded subset and such that for any ,(B2) is a bounded set.

Then, we have the following lemma.

Lemma 2.1 (Wangkeeree and Wangkeeree [47]). Assume that satisfies (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: for all . Then, the following hold:(1)for each , ,(2) is single-valued,(3) is firmly nonexpansive, that is, for any , (4),(5) is closed and convex.

We will also use the following lemma in our results.

Lemma 2.2 (Baillon and Haddad [51]). Let be a Banach space, let be a continuously Fréchet differentiable convex functional on , and let be the gradient of . If is -Lipschitz continuous, then is -inverse-strongly monotone.

3. Main Results

Theorem 3.1. Let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . For each , let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4),  :  a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function with assumption (B1) or (B2), be an -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into , and a -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into , and, for each , let be a nonexpansive mapping such that . Let be a -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into . Suppose that . Let , , , (), and be generated by , , , , Assume that (), , and satisfy(i),(ii),(iii),(iv). Then, converges strongly to .

Proof. Let . Then, Since both and are nonexpansive for each and , , from (2.6), we have that Therefore, Let , then is closed convex for each . Now assume that is closed convex for some . Then, from definition of , we know that is closed convex for the same . Hence, is closed convex for and for each . This implies that is closed convex for . Furthermore, we show that . For , . For , let . Then, which shows that , for all , for all . Thus, , for all , for all . Hence, it follows that , for all . Since , for all , and , for all , we have that Also, as by (2.1), it follows that From (3.6) and (3.7), we have that exists. Hence, is bounded and so are , , , , , , , and , . For , we have that . By (2.4), we obtain Letting and taking the limit in (3.8), we have that , , which shows that is Cauchy. In particular, . Since, is Cauchy, we assume that .
Since , then and it follows that Thus, Furthermore, Since , we have that Hence, . From (3.1), we have that On the other hand, and, hence, Putting (3.16) into (3.14), we have that It follows that Therefore, . Furthermore, Since , we have that Hence, . From (3.1), we have that On the other hand, and, hence, Putting (3.23) into (3.21), we have that It follows that Therefore, . But implies that Furthermore, we have that Furthermore, Thus, Since , condition (iii) and as , we have that . Now, using (2.2), we obtain Thus, Using this last inequality, we obtain from (3.1) This implies that Since , as , and as , we have that . Also since and , we have that . Now, Hence, , . By and , , we have that .
Since , , we have, for any , that Furthermore, replacing by in the last inequality and using (A2), we obtain Let for all and . This implies that . Then, we have that Since , , we obtain , . Furthermore, by the monotonicity of , we obtain . Then, by (A4), we obtain (noting that ) Using (A1), (A4), and (3.38), we also obtain and, hence, Letting , we have, for each , that This implies that . By following the same arguments, we can show that .
Following the arguments of [3, Theorem 3.1, pages 346-347], we can show that . Therefore, .
Noting that , we have by (2.3), for all . Since and by the continuity of inner product, we obtain, from the above inequality, for all . By (2.3) again, we conclude that . This completes the proof.

Corollary 3.2. Let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . Let be a nonexpansive mapping such that . Let be generated by Assume that such that . Then, converges strongly to .

Remark 3.3. Corollary 3.2 can be viewed as an improvement of Theorem 3.1 of Martinez-Yanes and Xu [39] because we relax the iterative step in the algorithm of Theorem 3.1 of [39].

4. Applications

Let be a nonempty closed and convex cone in and an operator of into . We define the polar of in to be the set Then, the element is called a solution of the complementarity problem if The set of solutions of the complementarity problem is denoted by . We will assume that satisfies the following conditions:(E1)   is -inverse strongly monotone,(E2)  .

Also, we replace conditions (B1) and (B2) with (D1)  for each and , there exist a bounded subset and such that, for any , (D2)   is a bounded set.

Theorem 4.1. Let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . For each , let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4), a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function with assumption (B1) or (B2), an -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into , and a -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into , and, for each , let be a nonexpansive mapping such that . Let be a -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into . Suppose that . Let , , , (), and be generated by , , , , Assume that (), , and satisfy(i),(ii),(iii),(iv). Then, converges strongly to .

Proof. Using Lemma 7.1.1 of [52], we have that . Hence, by Theorem 3.1 we obtain the desired conclusion.

Next we study the problem of finding a minimizer of a continuously Fréchet differentiable convex functional in a Hilbert space.

Theorem 4.2. For each , let be a bifunction from satisfying (A1)–(A4), a proper lower semicontinuous and convex function with assumption (B1) or (B2), an -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into itself, and a -inverse-strongly monotone mapping of into itself, and, for each , let be a nonexpansive mapping such that . Suppose that is a functional on which satisfies the following conditions:(1) is a continuously Fréchet differentiable convex functional on and is -Lipschitz continuous,(2).Suppose that . Let , , , (), and be generated by , , , , Assume that (), , and satisfy(i),(ii),(iii),(iv). Then, converges strongly to .

Proof. We know from condition (i) and Lemma 2.2 that is an -inverse-strongly monotone operator from into . Using Theorem 3.1, we have the desired conclusion.

We now study a kind of multiobjective optimization problem with nonempty set of solutions: where is a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space , and , , is a convex and a lower semicontinuous functional. Let us denote the set of solutions to (4.6) by and assume that .

We will denote the set of solutions of the following two optimization problems by and , respectively: Clearly, if we find a solution , then one must have .

Now, for each , let be defined by . Let us now find the following equilibrium problem: find such that for all . It is obvious that satisfies conditions (A1)–(A4) and , , where is the set of solutions to (4.8). By Theorem 3.1, we have the following theorem.

Theorem 4.3. Let be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space . For each , let be a lower semicontinuous and convex function such that . Let , , , and be generated by , , , Assume that , , and satisfy(i),(ii),(iii). Then, converges strongly to .

Remark 4.4. Our results in this paper also hold for infinite family of uniformly continuous quasi-nonexpansive mappings in a real Hilbert space.