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Convergence of Inexact Iterative Schemes for Nonexpansive Set-Valued Mappings
Fixed Point Theory and Applications volume 2010, Article number: 518243 (2010)
Abstract
Taking into account possibly inexact data, we study iterative schemes for approximating fixed points and attractors of contractive and nonexpansive set-valued mappings, respectively. More precisely, we are concerned with the existence of convergent trajectories of nonstationary dynamical systems induced by approximations of a given set-valued mapping.
1. Introduction
The study of iterative schemes for various classes of nonexpansive mappings is a central topic in Nonlinear Functional Analysis. It began with the classical Banach theorem [1] on the existence of a unique fixed point for a strict contraction. This celebrated result also yields convergence of iterates to the unique fixed point. Since Banach's seminal result, many developments have taken place in this area. We mention, in particular, existence and approximation results regarding fixed points of those nonexpansive mappings which are not necessarily strictly contractive [2, 3]. Such results were obtained for general nonexpansive mappings in special Banach spaces, while for self-mappings of general complete metric spaces most of the results were established for several classes of contractive mappings [4]. More recently, interesting developments have occurred for nonexpansive set-valued mappings, where the situation is more difficult and less understood. See, for instance, [5–8] and the references cited therein. As we have already mentioned, one of the methods for proving the classical Banach result is to show the convergence of Picard iterations, which holds for any initial point. In the case of set-valued mappings, not all the trajectories of the dynamical system induced by the given mapping converge. Therefore, convergent trajectories have to be constructed in a special way. For example, in the setting of [9], if at the moment we reach a point , then the next iterate is an element of , where is the given mapping, which approximates the best approximation of in . Since is assumed to act on a general complete metric space, we cannot, in general, choose to be the best approximation of by elements of . Instead, we choose so that it provides an approximation up to a positive number , such that the sequence is summable. This method allowed Nadler [9] to obtain the existence of a fixed point of a strictly contractive set-valued mapping and the authors of [10] to obtain more general results.
In view of the above discussion, it is obviously important to study convergence properties of the iterates of (set-valued) nonexpansive mappings in the presence of errors and possibly inaccurate data. The present paper is a contribution in this direction. More precisely, we are concerned with the existence of convergent trajectories of nonstationary dynamical systems induced by approximations of a given set-valued mapping. In the second section of the paper, we consider an iterative scheme for approximating fixed points of closed-valued strict contractions in metric spaces and prove our first convergence theorem (see Theorem 2.1 below). Our second convergence theorem (Theorem 3.1) is established in the third section of our paper. We show there that if for any initial point, there exists a trajectory of the dynamical system induced by a nonexpansive set-valued mapping , which converges to a given invariant set , then a convergent trajectory also exists for a nonstationary dynamical system induced by approximations of .
2. Convergence to a Fixed Point of a Contractive Mapping
In this section we consider iterative schemes for approximating fixed points of closed-valued strict contractions in metric spaces.
We begin with a few notations.
Throughout this paper, is a complete metric space.
For and a nonempty subset of , set
For each pair of nonempty , put
Let be such that is a closed subset of for each and
where is a constant.
Theorem 2.1.
Let and satisfy
Let satisfy, for each integer ,
Assume that and that for each integer ,
Then converges to a fixed point of .
Proof.
We first show that is a Cauchy sequence. To this end, let be an integer. Then by (2.6) and (2.5),
By (2.7),
Now we show by induction that for each integer ,
In view of (2.8) and (2.10), inequality (2.11) holds for .
Assume that is an integer and that (2.11) holds for . When combined with (2.7), this implies that
Thus (2.11) holds for . Therefore, we have shown by induction that (2.11) holds for all integers . By (2.11),
Thus is a Cauchy sequence and there exists
We claim that
Indeed, by (2.14), there is an integer such that for each integer ,
Let be an integer. By (2.3), (2.16) and (2.5),
as . Since is an arbitrary positive number, we conclude that
as claimed. Theorem 2.1 is proved.
3. Convergence to an Attractor of a Nonexpansive Mapping
In this section we show that if for any initial point, there exists a trajectory of the dynamical system induced by a nonexpansive set-valued mapping , which converges to an invariant set , then a convergent trajectory also exists for a nonstationary dynamical system induced by approximations of .
Let be such that is a closed set for each and
Theorem 3.1.
Let , , a nonempty closed subset of ,
and for each integer , let satisfy
Assume that for each , there exists a sequence such that
Then for each , there is a sequence such that
We begin the proof of Theorem 3.1 with two lemmata.
Lemma 3.2.
Let , a natural number, ,
and let . Then there is a natural number and a sequence such that
Proof.
Choose a natural number such that
and a sequence such that
There is a sequence such that
We are now going to define by induction a sequence .
To this end, assume that is an integer and that we have already defined , , such that
(Clearly, this assumption holds for .)
By (3.11) and (3.1),
By (3.15), there is such that
Together with (3.3), this implies that
and there is
such that
When combined with (3.16) and (3.13), this implies that
Thus, by (3.18) and (3.20), the assumption we have made concerning also holds for . Therefore, we have indeed defined by induction a sequence such that
and (3.13) holds for all integers . By (3.11), there is an integer such that
Together with (3.8) and (3.13), this inequality implies that
Lemma 3.2 is proved.
Lemma 3.3.
Let ,
, a natural number,
Then for all integers .
Proof.
We intend to show by induction that for all integers ,
Clearly, for inequality (3.27) does hold. Assume now that is an integer and (3.27) holds. Then there is
such that
By (3.24) and (3.3), there is
such that
By (3.29) and (3.1),
and, in view of (3.30), there is
such that
By (3.33), (3.28), and (3.2),
By (3.35), (3.31), (3.34), and (3.27),
Thus, the assumption we have made concerning also holds for . Therefore, we may conclude that inequality (3.27) indeed holds for all integers . Together with (3.26), this implies that for all integers ,
Lemma 3.3 is proved.
Completion of the Proof of Theorem 3.1
Let . Since , it follows from Lemma 3.2 that there exist a sequence and a strictly increasing sequence of natural numbers , constructed by induction, such that
and for each integer ,
It now follows from (3.39) and Lemma 3.3 that
Theorem 3.1 is proved.
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This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant no. 647/07), the Fund for the Promotion of Research at the Technion, and by the Technion President's Research Fund.
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Reich, S., Zaslavski, A. Convergence of Inexact Iterative Schemes for Nonexpansive Set-Valued Mappings. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2010, 518243 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/518243
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