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Strong convergence theorems for variational inequalities and fixed points of a countable family of nonexpansive mappings

Abstract

A new general iterative method for finding a common element of the set of solutions of variational inequality and the set of common fixed points of a countable family of nonexpansive mappings is introduced and studied. A strong convergence theorem of the proposed iterative scheme to a common fixed point of a countable family of nonexpansive mappings and a solution of variational inequality of an inverse strongly monotone mapping are established. Moreover, we apply our main result to obtain strong convergence theorems for a countable family of nonexpansive mappings and a strictly pseudocontractive mapping, and a countable family of uniformly k-strictly pseudocontractive mappings and an inverse strongly monotone mapping. Our main results improve and extend the corresponding result obtained by Klin-eam and Suantai (J Inequal Appl 520301, 16 pp, 2009).

Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 47H09, 47H10

1 Introduction

Let H be a real Hilbert space and C be a nonempty closed convex subset of H. In this paper, we always assume that a bounded linear operator A on H is strongly positive, that is, there is a constant γ ̄ >0 such that A x , x γ ̄ ||x| | 2 for all x H. Recall that a mapping T of H into itself is called nonexpansive if ||Tx - Ty|| ≤ ||x - y|| for all x, y H. The set of all fixed points of T is denoted by F(T), that is, F(T) = {x C : x = Tx}. A self-mapping f : HH is a contraction on H if there is a constant α [0, 1) such that ||f(x) - f(y) || ≤ α ||x - y|| for all x, y H.

Iterative methods for nonexpansive mappings have recently been applied to solve convex minimization problems. A typical problem is to minimize a quadratic function over the set of the fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping on H:

min x F 1 2 A x , x - x , b ,
(1.1)

where F is the fixed point set of a nonexpansive mapping T on H and b is a given point in H. A mapping B of C into H is called monotone if 〈Bx - By, x - y〉 ≥ 0 for all x, y C. The variational inequality problem is to find x C such that 〈Bx, y - x〉 ≥ 0 for all y C. The set of solutions of the variational inequality is denoted by VI(C, B). A mapping B of C to H is called inverse strongly monotone if there exists a positive real number β such that 〈x - y, Bx - By〉 ≥ β ||Bx - By||2 for all x, y C.

Starting with an arbitrary initial x0 H, define a sequence {x n } recursively by

x n + 1 = ( I - α n A ) T x n + α n b n 0 .
(1.2)

It is proved by Xu [1] that the sequence {x n } generated by (1.2) converges strongly to the unique solution of the minimization problem (1.1) provided the sequence {α n } satisfies certain conditions.

On the other hand, Moudafi [2] introduced the viscosity approximation method for nonexpansive mappings. Let f be a contraction on H. Starting with an arbitrary initial x0 H, define a sequence {x n } recursively by

x n + 1 = ( 1 - σ n ) T x n + σ n f ( x n ) n 0 ,
(1.3)

where {σ n } is a sequence in (0, 1). It is proved by Moudafi [2] and Xu [3] that under certain appropriate conditions imposed on {σ n }, the sequence {x n } generated by (1.3) strongly converges to the unique solution x* in C of the variational inequality

( I - f ) x * , x - x * 0 x C .

Recently, Marino and Xu [4] combined the iterative method (1.2) with the viscosity approximation method (1.3) and considered the following general iteration process:

x n + 1 = ( I - α n A ) T x n + α n γ f ( x n ) n 0
(1.4)

and proved that if the sequence {α n } satisfies appropriate conditions, the sequence {x n } generated by (1.4) converges strongly to the unique solution of the variational inequality

( A - γ f ) x * , x - x * 0 x C

which is the optimality condition for the minimization problem

min x C 1 2 A x , x - h ( x ) ,

where h is a potential function for γ f (i.e., h'(x) = γ f(x) for x H).

Chen, Zhang and Fan [5] introduced the following iterative process: x0 C,

x n + 1 = α n f ( x n ) + ( 1 - α n ) T P C ( x n - λ n B x n ) , n 0 ,
(1.5)

where {α n } (0, 1) and {λ n } [a, b] for some a, b with 0 < a < b < 2β.

They proved that under certain appropriate conditions imposed on {α n } and {λ n }, the sequence {x n } generated by (1.5) converges strongly to a common element of the set of fixed points of nonexpansive mapping and the set of solutions of the variational inequality for an inverse strongly monotone mapping (say x ̄ C), which solves the variational inequality

( I - f ) x ̄ , x - x ̄ 0 x F ( T ) V I ( C , B ) .

Klin-eam and Suantai [6] modify the iterative methods (1.4) and (1.5) by proposing the following general iterative method: x0 C,

x n + 1 = P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T P C ( x n - λ n B x n ) ) , n 0 ,
(1.6)

where P C is the projection of H onto C, f is a contraction, A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator, B is a β-inverse strongly monotone mapping, {α n } (0, 1) and {λ n } [a, b] for some a, b with 0 < a < b < 2β. They noted that when A = I and γ = 1, the iterative scheme (1.6) reduced to the iterative scheme (1.5).

Wangkeeree, Petrot and Wangkeeree [7] introduced the following iterative process:

x 0 = x H , y n = β n x n + ( 1 - β n ) T n x n , x n + 1 = α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) y n , n 0
(1.7)

where {α n }and{β n } (0, 1) and T n is a countable family of nonexpansive mappings, f is a contraction, and A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator. They proved that under certain appropriate conditions imposed on {α n }, {β n } and {T n }, the sequence {x n } converges strongly to x ̃ , which solves the variational inequality:

( A - γ f ) x ̃ , x ̃ - z 0 z F ( T ) .

In this paper, motivated and inspired by Klin-eam and Suantai [6], we introduced the following iteration to find some solutions of variational inequality and fixed points of countable family of nonexpansive mappings in a Hilbert spaces H: x0 C,

x n + 1 = P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n P C ( x n - λ n B x n ) ) , n 0 ,
(1.8)

where P C is the projection of H onto C, f is a contraction, A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator, T n is a countable family of nonexpansive mappings of C into itself, B is a β-inverse strongly monotone mapping, {α n } (0, 1), and {λ n } [a, b] for some a, b with 0 < a < b < 2β.

2 Preliminaries

Let H be a real Hilbert space with inner product 〈·,·〉 and norm || · ||, and let C be a closed convex subset of H. We write x n x to indicate that the sequence {x n } converges weakly to x, and x n x implies that {x n } converges strongly to x. For every point x H, there exists a unique nearest point in C, denoted by P C x, such that ||x - P C x|| ≤ ||x - y|| for all y C and P C x is called the metric projection of H onto C. We know that P C is a nonexpansive mapping of H onto C. It is also known that P C satisfies 〈x - y, P C x - P C y〉 ≥ ||P C x - P C y||2 for every x, y H. Moreover, P C x is characterized by the properties: P C x C and 〈x - P C x, P C x - y〉 ≥ 0 for all y C. In the context of the variational inequality problem, this implies that

u V I ( C , A ) u = P C ( u - λ A u ) , λ > 0 .

A set-valued mapping T : H → 2H is called monotone if for all x, y H, f Tx and g Ty imply 〈x - y, f - g〉 ≥ 0. A monotone mapping T : H → 2H is maximal if the graph G(T) of T is not properly contained in the graph of any other monotone mapping. It is known that a monotone mapping T is maximal if and only if for (x, f ) H × H, 〈x - y, f - g〉 ≥ 0 for every (y, g) G(T) implies f Tx. Let A be an inverse strongly monotone mapping of C into H, and let N C v be the normal cone to C at v C, i.e., N C v = {w H : 〈v - u, w〉 ≥ 0, u C}, and define

T v = A v + N C v , v C , , v C .

Then, T is maximal monotone and 0 Tv if and only if v V I(C, A).

Lemma 2.1 Let C be a closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Given x H and y C, then

(i) y = P C x if and only if the inequalityx - y, y - z〉 ≥ 0 for all z C,

(ii) P C is nonexpansive,

(iii)x - y, P C x - P C y〉 ≥ ||P C x - P C y||2 for all x, y H,

(iv)x - P C x, P C x - y〉 ≥ 0 for all x H and y C.

Lemma 2.2 [4] Assume A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator on a Hilbert space H with coefficient γ ̄ >0 and 0 < ρ ≤ ||A|| -1, then ||I-ρA||1-ρ γ ̄ .

Lemma 2.3 [8] Assume {a n } is a sequence of nonnegative real numbers such that

a n + 1 ( 1 - γ n ) a n + δ n , n 0

where {γ n } (0, 1) and {δ n } is a sequence in such that

(i) n = 1 γ n =,

(ii) lim supn→∞δ n n ≤ 0 or n = 1 | δ n |<.

Then, lim n→∞a n = 0.

Lemma 2.4 [9] Let C be a closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H, and let T : CC be a nonexpansive mapping such that F(T) . If a sequence {x n } in C such that x n z and x n - Tx n → 0, then z = Tz.

To deal with a family of mappings, the following conditions are introduced: Let C be a subset of a real Banach space E, and let { T n } n = 1 be a family of mappings of C such that n = 1 F ( T n ) . Then, {T n } is said to satisfy the AKTT-condition [10] if for each bounded subset B of C,

n = 1 s u p { | | T n + 1 z - T n z | | : z B } < .

Lemma 2.5 [10] Let C be a nonempty and closed subset of a Banach space E and let {T n } be a family of mappings of C into itself which satisfies the AKTT-condition. Then, for each x C, {T n x} converges strongly to a point in C. Moreover, let the mapping T be defined by

T x = lim n T n x x C .

Then, for each bounded subset B of C,

lim sup n { | | T z T n z | | : z B } = 0.

In the sequel, we will write ({T n }, T ) satisfies the AKTT-condition if {T n } satisfies the AKTT-condition, and T is defined by Lemma 2.5 with F ( T ) = n = 1 F ( T n ) .

3 Main results

In this section, we prove a strong convergence theorem for a countable family of nonexpansive mappings.

Theorem 3.1 Let C be a closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H, and let B : CH be a β-inverse strongly monotone mapping, also let A be a strongly positive linear bounded operator of H into itself with coefficient γ ̄ >0 such that ||A|| = 1 and let f : CC be a contraction with coefficient α(0 < α < 1). Assume that 0<γ< γ ̄ α. Let {T n } be a countable family of nonexpansive mappings from a subset C into itself with F= n = 1 F ( T n ) VI ( C , B ) . Suppose {x n } is the sequence generated by the following algorithm: x0 C,

x n + 1 = P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n P C ( x n - λ n B x n ) )

for all n = 0, 1, 2, ..., where {α n } (0, 1) and {λ n } (0, 2β ). If {α n } and {λ n } are chosen so that λ n [a, b] for some a, b with 0 < a < b < 2β ,

( C 1 ) lim n 0 α n = 0 ; ( C 2 ) n = 1 α n = ; ( C 3 ) n = 1 α n + 1 - α n < ; ( C 4 ) n = 1 λ n + 1 - λ n < .

Suppose that ({T n }, T ) satisfies the AKTT-condition. Then, {x n } converges strongly to q F, where q = P F (γ f + I - A)(q) which solves the following variational inequality:

( γ f - A ) q , p - q 0 p F .

Proof. First, we show that the sequence {x n } is bounded. Consider the mapping I -λ n B. Since B is a β-inverse strongly monotone mapping, we have that for all x, y C,

| | ( I - λ n B ) x - ( I - λ n B ) y | | 2 = | | ( x - y ) - λ n ( B x - B y ) | | 2 (1) = | | x - y | | 2 - 2 λ n x - y , B x - B y + λ n 2 | | B x - B y | | 2 (2) | | x - y | | 2 + λ n ( λ n - 2 β ) | | B x - B y | | 2 . (3) (4) 

For 0 < λ n < 2β, implies that ||k(I - λ n B)x - (I- λ n B)y||2 ≤ ||x - y||2.

So, the mapping I - λ n B is nonexpansive.

Put y n = P C (x n - λ n Bx n ) for all n ≥ 0. Let u F. Then u = P C (u - λ n Bu).

From P C is nonexpansive implies that

| | y n - u | | = | | P C ( x n - λ n B x n ) - P C ( u - λ n B u ) | | (1) | | ( x n - λ n B x n ) - ( u - λ n B u ) | | (2) = | | ( I - λ n B ) x n - ( I - λ n B ) u | | . (3) (4)

Since I - λ n B is nonexpansive, we have that ||y n - u|| ≤ ||x n - u||. Then

| | x n + 1 - u | | = | | P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n y n ) - u | | (1) | | α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n y n - u | | (2) = | | α n ( γ f ( x n ) - A u ) + ( I - α n A ) ( T n y n - u ) | | . (3) (4)

Since A is strongly positive linear bounded operator, we have

| | x n + 1 - u | | α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | T n y n - u | | (1) α n | | γ f ( x n ) - γ f ( u ) | | + α n | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | T n y n - u | | . (2) (3) 

By contraction of f, we have

| | x n + 1 - u | | α γ α n | | x n - u | | + α n | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | T n y n - u | | (1)  = α γ α n | | x n - u | | + α n | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | T n y n - T n u | | (2)  α γ α n | | x n - u | | + α n | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | y n - u | | (3)  α γ α n | | x n - u | | + α n | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | x n - u | | (4)  ( α γ α n + 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | x n - u | | + α n | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | (5)  ( 1 - α n ( γ ̄ - α γ ) ) | | x n - u | | + α n ( γ ̄ - α γ ) | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | γ ̄ - α γ (6)  m a x | | x n - u | | , | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | γ ̄ - α γ . (7)  (8) 

It follows from induction that || x n -u||max | | x 0 - u | | , | | γ f ( u ) - A u | | γ ̄ - α γ , n ≥ 0.

Therefore, {x n } is bounded, so are {y n }, {T n y n }, {Bx n }, and {f (x n )}.

Next, we show that ||xn+1- x n || → 0 and ||y n - T n y n || → 0 as n → ∞.

Since P C is nonexpansive, we also have

| | y n + 1 - y n | | = | | P C ( x n + 1 - λ n + 1 B x n + 1 ) - P C ( x n - λ n B x n ) | | (1) | | x n + 1 - λ n + 1 B x n + 1 - ( x n - λ n B x n ) | | (2) | | x n + 1 - λ n + 1 B x n + 1 - ( x n - λ n + 1 B x n ) | | + | λ n - λ n + 1 | | | B x n | | (3) = | | ( I - λ n + 1 B ) x n + 1 - ( I - λ n + 1 B ) x n | | + | λ n - λ n + 1 | | | B x n | | . (4)  (5) 

Since I - λ n B is nonexpansive, we have

| | y n + 1 - y n | | | | x n + 1 - x n | | + | λ n - λ n + 1 | | | B x n | | .

So we obtain

| | x n + 1 x n | | = | | P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I α n A ) T n y n ) P C ( α n 1 γ f ( x n 1 ) + ( I α n 1 A ) T n 1 y n 1 ) | | | | α n γ ( f ( x n ) f ( x n 1 ) ) + γ ( α n α n 1 ) f ( x n 1 ) + ( I α n A ) ( T n y n T n 1 y n 1 ) + ( α n α n 1 ) A T n 1 y n 1 | | α n α γ | | x n x n 1 | | + γ | α n α n 1 | | | f ( x n 1 ) | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | T n y n T n 1 y n 1 | | + | α n α n 1 | | | A T n 1 y n 1 | | α n α γ | | x n x n 1 | | + γ | α n α n 1 | | | f ( x n 1 ) | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) ( | | T n y n T n y n 1 | | + | | T n y n 1 T n 1 y n 1 | | ) + | α n α n 1 | | | A T n 1 y n 1 | | α n α γ | | x n x n 1 | | + γ | α n α n 1 | | | f ( x n 1 ) | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) ( | | y n y n 1 | | + | | T n y n 1 T n 1 y n 1 | | ) + | α n α n 1 | | | A T n 1 y n 1 | | = α n α γ | | x n x n 1 | | + γ | α n α n 1 | | | f ( x n 1 ) | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | y n y n 1 | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | T n y n 1 T n 1 y n 1 | | + | α n α n 1 | | | A T n 1 y n 1 | | α n α γ | | x n x n 1 | | + γ | α n α n 1 | | | f ( x n 1 ) | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | x n x n 1 | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | λ n 1 λ n | | | B x n 1 | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | T n y n 1 T n 1 y n 1 | | + | α n α n 1 | | | A T n 1 y n 1 | | = ( 1 ( γ ¯ α γ ) α n ) | | x n x n 1 | | + γ | α n α n 1 | | | f ( x n 1 ) | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | λ n 1 λ n | | | B x n 1 | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | T n y n 1 T n 1 y n 1 | | + | α n α n 1 | | | A T n 1 y n 1 | | ( 1 ( γ ¯ α γ ) α n ) | | x n x n 1 | | + 2 L | α n α n 1 | + M | λ n 1 λ n | + s u p y { y n } | | T n y T n 1 y | | ,

where L = max{supn||ATn- 1yn - 1||, supnγ ||f (xn - 1)||} and M = sup{||Bxn- 1|| : n}.

Since {T n } satisfies the AKTT-condition, we get that

n = 1 sup y { y n } | | T n y - T n - 1 y | | < .

From condition (C3), (C4) and by Lemma 2.3, we have ||xn+1- x n || → 0.

For u F and u = P C (u - λ n Bu), we have

| | x n + 1 u | | 2 = | | P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I α n A ) T n y n ) P C ( u ) | | 2 | | α n ( γ f ( x n ) A u ) + ( I α n A ) ( T n y n u ) | | 2 ( α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | + | | I α n A | | | | T n y n u | | ) 2 ( α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | y n u | | ) 2 α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | 2 + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | y n u | | 2 + 2 α n ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | | | y n u | | α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | 2 + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | ( I λ n B ) x n ( I λ n B ) u | | 2 + 2 α n ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | | | y n u | | α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | 2 + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) ( | | x n u | | 2 2 λ n x n u , B x n B u + λ n 2 | | B x n B u | | 2 ) + 2 α n ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | | | y n u | | α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | 2 + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) ( | | x n u | | 2 2 λ n β | | B x n B u | | 2 + λ n 2 | | B x n B u | | 2 ) + 2 α n ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | | | y n u | | = α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | 2 + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) ( | | x n u | | 2 + λ n ( λ n 2 β ) | | B x n B u | | 2 ) + 2 α n ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | | | y n u | | α n | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | 2 + | | x n u | | 2 + ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) b ( b 2 β ) | | B x n B u | | 2 + 2 α n ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) | | γ f ( x n ) A u | | | | y n u | | .

So, we obtain

- ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) b ( b - 2 β ) | | B x n - B u | | 2 α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | 2 + ( | | x n - u | | + | | x n + 1 - u | | ) ( | | x n - u | | - | | x n + 1 - u | | ) + ε n α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | 2 + ε n + | | x n - x n + 1 | | ( | | x n - u | | + | | x n + 1 - u | | ) ,

where ε n =2 α n ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) ||γf ( x n ) -Au|||| y n -u||.

Since α n → 0 and ||xn+1- x n || → 0, we obtain ||Bx n - Bu|| → 0 as n → ∞.

Further, by Lemma 2.1, we have

| | y n u | | 2 = | | P C ( x n λ n B x n ) P C ( u λ n B u ) | | 2 ( x n λ n B x n ) ( u λ n B u ) , y n u = 1 2 ( | | ( x n λ n B x n ) ( u λ n B u ) | | 2 + | | y n u | | 2 | | ( x n λ n B x n ) ( u λ n B u ) ( y n u ) | | 2 ) 1 2 ( | | x n u | | 2 + | | y n u | | 2 | | ( x n y n ) λ n ( B x n B u ) | | 2 ) | | x n u | | 2 | | x n y n | | 2 + 2 λ n x n y n , B x n B u λ n 2 | | B x n B u | | 2 .

So, we have

| | x n + 1 - u | | 2 = | | P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n y n ) - P C ( u ) | | 2 (1) | | α n ( γ f ( x n ) - A u ) + ( I - α n A ) ( T n y n - u ) | | 2 (2) ( α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | + | | I - α n A | | | | T n y n - u | | ) 2 (3) ( α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | y n - u | | ) 2 (4) α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | 2 + ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | y n - u | | 2 (5) + 2 α n ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | | | y n - u | | (6) α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | 2 + ( 1 - α n γ ¯ ) | | x n - u | | 2 - ( 1 - α n γ ¯ ) | | x n - y n | | 2 (7) + 2 ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) λ n x n - y n , B x n - B u - ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) λ n 2 | | B x n - B u | | 2 (8) + 2 α n ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | | | y n - u | | , (9) (10) 

which implies

( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | x n - y n | | 2 α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | 2 + ( | | x n - u | | + | | x n + 1 - u | | ) | | x n - x n + 1 | | (1) + 2 ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) λ n x n - y n , B x n - B u - ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) λ n 2 | | B x n - B u | | 2 (2) + 2 α n ( 1 - α n γ ̄ ) | | γ f ( x n ) - A u | | | | y n - u | | . (3) (4) 

Since α n → 0, ||xn+1- x n || → 0, and ||Bx n - Bu|| → 0, we obtain ||x n - y n || → 0 as n → ∞.

Next, we have

| | x n + 1 - T n y n | | = | | P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n y n ) - P C ( T n y n ) | | (1) | | α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n y n - T n y n | | (2) = α n | | γ f ( x n ) - A T n y n | | . (3) (4)

Since α n → 0 and {f (x n )}, {AT n y n } are bounded, we have ||xn+1- T n y n || → 0 as n → ∞. Since

| | x n - T n y n | | | | x n - x n + 1 | | + | | x n + 1 - T n y n | | ,

it implies that ||x n - T n y n || → 0 as n → ∞. Since

| | x n - T n x n | | | | x n - T n y n | | + | | T n y n - T n x n | | (1) | | x n - T n y n | | + | | y n - x n | | , (2) (3)

we obtain ||x n - T n x n || → 0 as n → ∞. Moreover, from

| | y n - T n y n | | | | y n - x n | | + | | x n - T n y n | | ,

it follows that ||y n - T n y n || → 0 as n → ∞.

By ||y n - x n || → 0, ||T n y n - x n || → 0 and Lemma 2.5, we have

| | T x n - x n | | | | T x n - T y n | | + | | T y n - T n y n | | + | | T n y n - x n | | (1) | | x n - y n | | + s u p { | | T n z - T z | | : z { y n } } + | | T n y n - x n | | . (2) (3)

Hence, limn→∞||Tx n - x n || = 0. Observe that P F (γ f +I - A) is a contraction.

By Lemma 2.2, we have that ||I-A||1- γ ̄ , and since 0<γ< γ ̄ α, we get

| | P F ( γ f + I - A ) x - P F ( γ f + I - A ) y | | | | ( γ f + I - A ) x - ( γ f + I - A ) y | | (1)  γ | | f ( x ) - f ( y ) | | + | | I - A | | | | x - y | | (2)  γ α | | x - y | | + ( 1 - γ ̄ ) | | x - y | | (3)  = ( 1 - ( γ ̄ - γ α ) ) | | x - y | | . (4)  (5) 

Then, Banach's contraction mapping principle guarantees that P F (γ f +I - A) has a unique fixed point, say q H. That is, q = P F (γ f + I - A)q. By Lemma 2.1, we obtain

( γ f - A ) q , x - q 0 for all x F .
(3.1)

Choose a subsequence { y n k } of {y n } such that

lim sup n ( γ f A ) q , T n y n q = lim k ( γ f A ) q , T n k y n k q .

As { y n k } is bounded, there exists a subsequence { y n k i } of { y n k } which converges weakly to p. Without loss of generality, we may assume that y n k p.

Since ||y n - T n y n || → 0, we obtain T n k y n k p. Since ||x n - Tx n || → 0, ||x n - y n || → 0 and by Lemma 2.4-2.5, we have p n = 1 F ( T n ) . Let

S v = B v + N C v , v C , , v C .

where N C v is normal cone to C at v C, that is N C v = {w H : 〈v - u, w〉 ≥ 0, u C}. Then S is a maximal monotone. Let (v, w) G(S). Since w - Bv N C v and y n C, we have 〈v - y n , w - Bv〉 ≥ 0. On the other hand, by Lemma 2.1 and from y n = P C (x n - λ n Bx n ), we have

v - y n , y n - ( x n - λ n B x n ) 0 (1) v - y n , ( y n - x n ) λ n + B x n 0 . (2) (3)

Hence,

v - y n k , w v - y n k , B v (1) v - y n k , B v - v - y n k , y n k - x n k λ n + B x n k (2) = v - y n k , B v - B x n k - y n k - x n k λ n (3) = v - y n k , B v - B y n k + v - y n k , B y n k - B x n k - v - y n k , y n k - x n k λ n (4) v - y n k , B y n k - B x n k - v - y n k , y n k - x n k λ n . (5) (6) 

This implies 〈v - p, w〉 ≥ 0. Since S is maximal monotone, we have p S -10 and hence p V I(C, B). We obtain that p F. By (3.1), we have 〈(γ f - A)q, p - q〉 ≤ 0. It follows that

limsup n ( γ f - A ) q , T n y n - q = lim k ( γ f - A ) q , T n k y n k - q = ( γ f - A ) q , p - q 0 .

Finally, we prove x n q. By ||y n - u|| ≤ ||x n - u|| and Schwarz inequality, we have

| | x n + 1 q | | 2 = | | P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I α n A ) T n y n ) P C ( q ) | | 2 | | α n ( γ f ( x n ) A q ) + ( I α n A ) ( T n y n q ) | | 2 | | ( I α n A ) ( T n y n q ) | | 2 + α n 2 | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 α n ( I α n A ) ( T n y n q ) , γ f ( x n ) A q ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) 2 | | y n q | | 2 + α n 2 | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 α n T n y n q , γ f ( x n ) A q 2 α n 2 A ( T n y n q ) , γ f ( x n ) A q ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) 2 | | x n q | | 2 + α n 2 | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 α n T n y n q , γ f ( x n ) γ f ( q ) + 2 α n T n y n q , γ f ( q ) A q 2 α n 2 A ( T n y n q ) , γ f ( x n ) A q ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) 2 | | x n q | | 2 + α n 2 | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 α n | | T n y n q | | | | γ f ( x n ) γ f ( q ) | | + 2 α n T n y n q , γ f ( q ) A q 2 α n 2 A ( T n y n q ) , γ f ( x n ) A q ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) 2 | | x n q | | 2 + α n 2 | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 γ α α n | | y n q | | | | x n q | | + 2 α n T n y n q , γ f ( q ) A q 2 α n 2 A ( T n y n q ) , γ f ( x n ) A q ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) 2 | | x n q | | 2 + α n 2 | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 γ α α n | | x n q | | 2 + 2 α n T n y n q , γ f ( q ) A q 2 α n 2 A ( T n y n q ) , γ f ( x n ) A q ( ( 1 α n γ ¯ ) 2 + 2 γ α α n ) | | x n q | | 2 + α n ( 2 T n y n q , γ f ( q ) A q + α n | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 α n | | A ( T n y n q ) | | | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | ) = ( 1 2 ( γ ¯ γ α ) α n ) | | x n q | | 2 + α n ( 2 T n y n q , γ f ( q ) A q + α n | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | 2 + 2 α n | | A ( T n y n q ) | | | | γ f ( x n ) A q | | + α n γ ¯ 2 | | x n q | | 2 ) .

Since {x n }, {f (x n )} and {T n y n } are bounded, we can take a constant η > 0 such that

η | | γ f ( x n ) - A q | | 2 + 2 | | A ( T n y n - q ) | | | | γ f ( x n ) - A q | | + γ ̄ 2 | | x n - q | | 2

for all n ≥ 0. It follows that

| | x n + 1 - q | | 2 ( 1 - 2 ( γ ̄ - γ α ) α n ) | | x n - q | | 2 + α n β n ,
(3.2)

where β n = 2〈T n y n - q, γ f(q) - Aq〉 +ηα n . By lim supn→∞〈(γ f - A)q, T n y n - q〉 ≤ 0, we get lim sup n→∞β n ≤ 0. By Lemma 2.3 and (3.2), we can conclude that x n q. This completes the proof. ■

Corollary 3.2 Let C be a closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H, and let B : CH be a β-inverse strongly monotone mapping, also let f : CC be a contraction with coefficient α(0 < α < 1). Let {T n } be a countable family of nonexpansive mappings from a subset C into itself with F= n = 1 F ( T n ) VI ( C , B ) . Suppose {x n } is the sequence generated by the following algorithm: x0 C,

x n + 1 = α n f ( x n ) + ( 1 - α n ) T n P C ( x n - λ n B x n )

for all n = 0, 1, 2, ..., where {α n } (0, 1) and {λ n } (0, 2β ). If {α n } and {λ n } are chosen so that λ n [a, b] for some a, b with 0 < a < b < 2β,

( C 1 ) lim n 0 α n = 0 ; ( C 2 ) n = 1 α n = ; ( C 3 ) n = 1 α n + 1 - α n < ; ( C 4 ) n = 1 λ n + 1 - λ n < .

Suppose that ({T n }, T ) satisfies the AKTT-condition. Then {x n } converges strongly to q F, where q = P F (γ f + I - A)(q) which solves the following variational inequality:

( γ f - I ) q , p - q 0 p F .

Proof. Taking A = I and γ = 1 in Theorem 3.1, we get the results. ■

4 Applications

In this section, we apply the iterative scheme (1.8) and Theorem 3.1 for finding a common fixed point of countable family of nonexpansive mappings and strictly pseudocontractive mapping and inverse strongly monotone mapping.

A mapping T : CC is called strictly pseudocontractive if there exists k with 0 ≤ k < 1 such that

| | T x - T y | | 2 | | x - y | | 2 + k | | ( I - T ) x - ( I - T ) y | | 2 x , y C .

If k = 0, then T is nonexpansive. Put B = I - T, where T : CC is a strictly pseudocontractive mapping with k. Then, B is ((1 - k)/2)-inverse strongly monotone and B -1 (0) = F(T). Hence, for all x, y C,

| | ( I - B ) x - ( I - B ) y | | 2 | | x - y | | 2 + k | | B x - B y | | 2 .

Conversely, since H is a real Hilbert space, we have

| | ( I - B ) x - ( I - B ) y | | 2 | | x - y | | 2 + | | B x - B y | | 2 - 2 x - y , B x - B y .

Thus, we have

x - y , B x - B y 1 - k 2 | | B x - B y | | 2 .

Theorem 4.1 Let C be a closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H, and let A be a strongly positive linear bounded operator of H into itself with coefficient γ ̄ >0 such that ||A|| = 1 and let f : CC be a contraction with coefficient α(0 < α < 1). Assume that 0<γ< γ ̄ α. Let {T n } be a family of nonexpansive mappings of C into itself and let S be a strictly pseudocontractive mapping of C into itself with β such that F= n = 1 F ( T n ) F ( S ) . Suppose {x n } is a sequence generated by the following algorithm: x0 C,

x n + 1 = P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) T n ( ( 1 - λ n ) x n - λ n S x n ) )

for all n = 0, 1, 2, ..., where {α n } [0, 1) and {λ n } [0, 1 - β). If {α n } and {λ n } are chosen so that λ n [a, b] for some a, b with 0 < a < b < 1 - β,

( C 1 ) lim n 0 α n = 0 ; ( C 2 ) n = 1 α n = ; ( C 3 ) n = 1 α n + 1 - α n < ; ( C 4 ) n = 1 λ n + 1 - λ n < .

Suppose that ({T n }, T) satisfies the AKTT-condition. Then, {x n } converges strongly to q F, such that

( γ f - A ) q , p - q 0 p F .

Proof. Put B = I - S, then B is ((1 - k)/2)-inverse strongly monotone and F(S) = V I(C, B) and P C (x n - λ n Bx n ) = (1 - λ n )x n +λ n Sx n . Therefore, by Theorem 3.1, the conclusion follows. ■

Lemma 4.2 [9] Let T : CH be a k-strictly pseudocontractive, then

(i) the fixed point set F(T) of T is closed convex so that the projection PF(T)is well defined;

(ii) define a mapping S : CH by

S x = μ x + ( 1 - μ ) T x , x C .
(4.1)

If μ [k, 1), then S is a nonexpansive mapping such that F(T) = F(S).

A family of mappings { T n : C H } n = 1 is called a family of uniformly k-strictly pseudocontractions, if there exists a constant k [0, 1) such that | | T n x - T n y | | 2 | | x - y | | 2 + k | | ( I - T n ) x - ( I - T n ) y | | 2 x , y C , n 1 .

Let {T n : CC} be a countable family of uniformly k-strictly pseudocontractions. Let { S n : C C } n = 1 be the sequence of mappings defined by (4.1), i.e.,

S n x = μ x + ( 1 - μ ) T n x , x C , n 1 with μ [ k , 1 ) .

Corollary 4.3 Let C be a closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H, and let B : CH be a β-inverse strongly monotone mapping, also let A be a strongly positive linear bounded operator of H into itself with coefficient γ ̄ >0 such that ||A|| = 1 and let f : CC be a contraction with coefficient α(0 < α < 1). Assume that 0<γ< γ ̄ α. Let {T n } be a countable family of uniformly k-strictly pseudocontractions from a subset C into itself with F= n = 1 F ( T n ) VI ( C , B ) . Suppose {x n } is the sequence generated by the following algorithm: x0 C,

x n + 1 = P C ( α n γ f ( x n ) + ( I - α n A ) S n P C ( x n - λ n B x n ) )

for all n = 0, 1, 2, ..., where {α n } (0, 1) and {λ n } (0, 2β). If {α n } and {λ n } are chosen so that λ n [a, b] for some a, b with 0 < a < b < 2β,

( C 1 ) lim n 0 α n = 0 ; ( C 2 ) n = 1 α n = ; ( C 3 ) n = 1 α n + 1 - α n < ; ( C 4 ) n = 1 λ n + 1 - λ n < .

Then, {x n } converges strongly to q F, where q = P F (γ f + I - A)(q) which solves the following variational inequality:

( γ f - A ) q , p - q 0 p F .

Proof. Let {T n } be a countable family of uniformly k-strictly pseudo-contractions from a subset C into itself. Set S n = μI + (1 - μ)T n where μ [k, 1). By Lemma 4.2, we have S n is nonexpansive and F (S n ) = F (T n ). Therefore, by Theorem 3.1, the conclusion follows. ■

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The authors would like to thank the Centre of Excellence in Mathematics for financial support under the project RG-1-53-02-2. The first author is also supported by the Graduate School, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

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Bunyawat, A., Suantai, S. Strong convergence theorems for variational inequalities and fixed points of a countable family of nonexpansive mappings. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2011, 47 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1812-2011-47

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