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Fixed point solutions of generalized mixed equilibrium problems and variational inclusion problems for nonexpansive semigroups
Fixed Point Theory and Applications volume 2014, Article number: 57 (2014)
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a composite iterative method for solving a common element of the set of solutions of fixed points for nonexpansive semigroups, the set of solutions of generalized mixed equilibrium problems and the set of solutions of the variational inclusion for a β-inverse strongly monotone mapping in a real Hilbert space. We prove that the sequence converges strongly to a common element of the above sets under some mild conditions. Our results improve and extend the corresponding results of Kumam and Wattanawitoon (Math. Comput. Model. 53:998-1006, 2011), Shehu (Math. Comput. Model. 55:1301-1314, 2012), Plubtieng and Punpaeng (Math. Comput. Model. 48:279-286, 2008), Li et al. (Nonlinear Anal. 70:3065-3071, 2009), Plubtieng and Wangkeeree (Bull. Korean Math. Soc. 45:717-728, 2008) and some authors.
MSC:46C05, 47H09, 47H10.
1 Introduction
Let H be a real Hilbert space with inner product and norm . Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of H. Recall that a mapping is said to be nonexpansive if
We denote by the set of fixed points of T. Let be the projection of H onto the convex subset C. Moreover, we also denote by ℝ the set of all real numbers.
A one-parameter family is said to be a nonexpansive semigroup on C if it satisfies the following conditions:
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(1)
for all ;
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(2)
for all ;
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(3)
for all and ;
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(4)
for all , is continuous.
We denote by the set of all common fixed points of ℑ, that is, . It is well known that is closed and convex.
A mapping A of C into H is called monotone if for all . A mapping A is called α-inverse strongly monotone if there exists a positive real number α such that for all . A mapping A is called α-strongly monotone if there exists a positive real number α such that for all . It is obvious that any α-inverse strongly monotone mappings A is a monotone and -Lipschitz continuous mapping. A linear bounded operator A is called strongly positive if there exists a constant with the property for all .
Let be a single-valued nonlinear mapping and be a set-valued mapping. The variational inclusion problem is to find such that
where 0 is the zero vector in H.
The set of solutions of (1.1) is denoted by (see [1–3] and the reference therein).
A set-valued mapping is called monotone if for all , and imply . A monotone mapping M is maximal if its graph of M is not properly contained in the graph of any other monotone mapping. It is well known that a monotone mapping M is maximal if and only if for , for all imply .
Let be a set-valued maximal monotone mapping. Then the single-valued mapping defined by
is called the resolvent operator associated with M, where λ is any positive number and I is the identity mapping. It is well known that the resolvent operator is nonexpansive, 1-inverse strongly monotone and that a solution of problem (1.1) is a fixed point of the operator for all , where I denotes the identity operator on H (see [4]).
Peng and Yao [5] considered the following generalized mixed equilibrium problem of finding such that
where is a nonlinear mapping, is a function and is a bifunction. The set of solutions of problem (1.2) is denoted by .
In the case of , problem (1.2) reduces to the following mixed equilibrium problem of finding such that
which was considered by Ceng and Yao [6]. is denoted by .
In the case of , problem (1.2) reduces to the following generalized equilibrium problem of finding such that
which was studied by Takahashi and Takahashi [7].
In the case of and , problem (1.2) reduces to the equilibrium problem of finding such that
The set of solution of (1.3) is denoted by .
In the case and , problem (1.2) reduces to the classical variational inequality of finding such that
The set of solutions of problem (1.4) is denoted by .
The problem (1.2) is very general in the sense that it includes, as special cases, optimization problem, variational inequalities, minimax problems, the Nash equilibrium problem in noncooperative games and others (see [6, 8–10]).
Peng and Yao [5] considered iterative methods for finding a common element of the set of solutions of problem (1.2), the set of solutions of problem (1.4), and the set of fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping.
Let be two bifunctions, be two functions and be two nonlinear mappings. We consider the generalized mixed equilibria problem of finding such that
where and are two constants.
In the case , problem (1.5) reduces to the following problem of the general system of generalized equilibria of finding such that
which was considered by Ceng and Yao [9].
In the case , problem (1.6) reduces to the following problem of the general system of variational inequalities of finding such that
which was considered by Ceng, Wang and Yao [11].
In particular, if is a nonlinear mapping, then problem (1.7) reduces to the following problem of the system of variational inequalities of finding such that
which was studied by Verma [12].
If in (1.8), then (1.8) reduces to the classical variational inequality (1.4).
For solving the mixed equilibrium problem, let us give the following assumptions for the bifunction θ, φ and the set C:
(H1) for all ;
(H2) θ is monotone, i.e., for all ;
(H3) for each
(H4) for each , is convex and lower semicontinuous;
(A1) for each and , there exist a bounded subset and such that for any
(A2) C is a bounded set.
Recently, Shehu [13] studied the problem of finding a common element of the set of common fixed points of a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup, the set of solutions to a variational inclusion, and the set of solutions to a generalized equilibrium problem. More precisely, the author proved the following theorem.
Theorem 1.1 Let C be a nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let θ be a bifunction from to ℝ satisfying (H1)-(H4), ψ a μ-inverse strongly monotone mapping of C into H, B an α-inverse strongly monotone mapping of C into H and a maximal monotone mapping. Let be a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup on H such that and suppose is a contraction mapping with a constant . Let be a real sequence such that . Suppose and are generated by ,
for all , where and are sequences in and satisfying:
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(i)
, ,
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(ii)
, , ,
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(iii)
,
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(iv)
, ,
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(v)
.
Then converges strongly to z, where .
In this paper, motivated by Shehu [13], Kumam and Wattanawitoon [14], Li et al. [15], Plubtieng and Punpaeng [10], Plubtieng and Wangkeeree [16], we introduce the following general iterative scheme for finding a common element of the set of common fixed points of a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup, the set of solutions of the generalized mixed equilibrium problem (1.2), the set of solutions to a variational inclusion (1.1), and the set of solutions of the generalized mixed equilibria problem (1.5), which solves the variational inequality
where and Ω is the set of solutions of the generalized equilibria problem (1.5).
The results obtained in this paper improve and extend the recent results announced by [10, 13–16] and many others.
2 Preliminaries
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. For every point there exists a unique nearest point of C, denoted by such that for all . Such a is called the metric projection of H onto C. We know that is a firmly nonexpansive mapping of H onto C, i.e.,
Further, for any and , if and only if
It is also known that H satisfies Opial’s condition [17], that is, if for each sequence in H which converges weakly to a point , we have
In order to prove our main results in the next section, we need the following lemmas.
Lemma 2.1 ([6])
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of H. Let be a bifunction satisfying conditions (H1)-(H4) and let be a lower semicontinuous and convex function. For and define a mapping
for all . Assume that either (A1) or (A2) holds.
Then the following results hold:
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(i)
for each and is single-valued;
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(ii)
is firmly nonexpansive, i.e., for any
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(iii)
;
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(iv)
is closed and convex.
By similar argument as in the proof of Lemma 2.2 in [6], we have the following result.
Lemma 2.2 Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of H. Let be two bifunctions satisfying conditions (H1)-(H4). Let be two lower semicontinuous and convex functions with restriction (A1) or (A2) and let the mappings be -inverse strongly monotone and -inverse strongly monotone, respectively. Let and . Then for given , is a solution of problem (1.5) if and only if is a fixed point of the mapping defined by
where .
Remark 2.1 Under the conditions of Lemma 2.2, the set of fixed points of the mapping Γ is denoted by Ω.
Proposition 2.1 ([7])
Let C, H, θ, φ and be as in Lemma 2.1. Then the following holds:
for all and .
Lemma 2.3 ([18])
Assume that T is a nonexpansive self-mapping of a nonempty closed convex subset of C of a real Hilbert space H. If T has a fixed point, then is demiclosed, that is, when is a sequence in C converging weakly to some and the sequence converges strongly to some y, it follows that .
Lemma 2.4 ([4])
Let be a maximal monotone mapping and let be a monotone and Lipschitz continuous mapping. Then the mapping is a maximal monotone mapping.
Lemma 2.5 ([19])
Let C be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a Hilbert space H and let be a nonexpansive semigroup on C. Then for any ,
Lemma 2.6 ([12])
Let be a sequence of nonnegative real numbers such that
where and , are sequences in ℝ such that
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(i)
, ;
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(ii)
;
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(iii)
, .
Then .
Lemma 2.7 ([19])
Assume that A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator on a Hilbert space H with coefficient and . Then .
3 Main results
Now we state and prove our main results.
Theorem 3.1 Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be three bifunctions which satisfy assumptions (H1)-(H4) and be three lower semicontinuous and convex functions with restriction (A1) or (A2). Let be ζ-inverse strongly monotone, β-inverse strongly monotone, -inverse strongly monotone and -inverse strongly monotone, respectively and be a maximal monotone mapping. Let be a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup on H such that . Let be a real sequence such that . Let f be a contraction from C into itself with a constant α () and let A be a strongly positive linear bounded operator with coefficient such that . Assume that . Let and let be a sequence defined by
where , , , , satisfy the following conditions:
(C1) , and ;
(C2) and ;
(C3) and ;
(C4) .
Then converges strongly to , which solves the following variational inequality:
and is a solution of problem (1.5), where .
Proof Since F is a ζ-inverse strongly monotone mapping, we have
In similar way, we can obtain
Noticing that , we may assume, with no loss of generality, that for all . From Lemma 2.7 we know that if , then . Since A is a strongly positive bounded linear operator on H, we have
Observe that
This shows that is positive. It follows that
We divide the proof into several steps.
Step 1. is bounded.
Indeed, take arbitrarily. Since , F is ζ-inverse strongly monotone and , we obtain for any
Putting , , and , we have
and
And since
we know that for any
Since A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator with coefficient , we have
By induction, we obtain for all
Hence is bounded. So are , , .
Step 2. We show that .
We estimate . From (3.1), we have
and
Without loss of generality, let us assume that there exists a real number a such that for all n. Utilizing Proposition 2.1 we have
It follows from (3.8)-(3.10) that
and
Put for all . We note that
Using (3.12) and (3.13) we get
where D = max{, , , }. From Lemma 2.6, taking , , , it follows that .
Step 3. , , and .
Indeed, from (3.1), (3.4), (3.5), and (3.7) we get
Therefore
Since and as , we have , and . Similarly, from (3.4), (3.6), and (3.7) we have
which implies that
We also have .
Step 4. We claim that , and .
Indeed, from Lemma 2.1, (3.4), (3.5), and (3.7) we have
and
which imply that
and
It follows from (3.15) that
which gives
Since , and as , we have
Also, from (3.14) we have
So, we have
Note that as . Then we have
In addition, from the firm nonexpansivity of , we obtain
which implies that
From (3.7) and (3.18), we have
It follows that
Since as , we obtain
Thus, from (3.16), (3.17), and (3.19) we obtain
and
Since is 1-inverse strongly monotone, we have
which implies that
Substituting (3.15) into (3.20), we have
It follows from (3.21) that
which gives
Since , , , as , we have .
Step 5. We show .
Denote . From (3.1), , and we have
Let . Then K is a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of C which is -invariant for each and contains . It follows from Lemma 2.5 that
and from (3.22) and (3.23), we have
Hence
Furthermore, from Step 4 we have for every that
So, we obtain from (3.24)
Hence, we have for every that
Step 6. We show that and , where .
Indeed, take a subsequence of such that
Since is bounded, we can assume that . First, we prove that .
Assume the contrary that for some . Then by Opial’s condition, we obtain from Step 5 that
This is a contraction. Hence, .
Next, let us show that .
From , we obtain
It follows from (H2) that
Replacing n by , we have
Let for all and . Then we have . It follows from (3.28) that
Since , we have as . From the monotonity of F, we have
From (H4), and , we have
as . By (H1), (H4), and (3.29), we obtain
Hence we obtain
Putting , we have
This implies that .
Next, we prove that .
Utilizing Lemma 2.1, we have for all
This shows that is nonexpansive. Note that
According to Lemma 2.2 and Lemma 2.3, we obtain .
Lastly, we show that .
In fact, since B is a β-inverse strongly monotone, B is monotone and Lipschitz continuous mapping. It follows from Lemma 2.4 that is a maximal monotone mapping. Let . Then . Since , we have , i.e., . By virtue of the maximal monotonicity of , we have
and hence
It follows from that we have
and
It follows from the maximal monotonicity of that , that is, . Therefore .
By , we obtain
and
as required.
Step 7. We prove as .
By using (3.1), we have
It follows from (3.4), (3.6), and (3.7) that
where
It is easily seen that as , and . Hence, applying Lemma 2.6 we immediately obtain as . This completes the proof. □
Remark 3.1 Let us consider the following sequences:
It is easy to see that all hypotheses (C1)-(C4) of Theorem 3.1 are satisfied.
By Theorem 3.1, we can obtain the following results immediately.
Corollary 3.1 Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be three bifunctions which satisfy assumptions (H1)-(H4) and be three lower semicontinuous and convex functions with restriction (A1) or (A2). Let be β-inverse strongly monotone, -inverse strongly monotone and -inverse strongly monotone, respectively and be a maximal monotone mapping. Let be a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup on H such that . Let be a real sequence such that . Let f be a contraction from C into itself with a constant α () and let A be a strongly positive linear bounded operator with coefficient such that . Assume that . Let and let be a sequence defined by
where , , , , satisfy the following conditions:
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(i)
, and ;
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(ii)
and ;
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(iii)
and ;
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(iv)
.
Then converges strongly to , which solves the following variational inequality:
and is a solution of problem (1.5), where .
Proof In Theorem 3.1, for all , is equivalent to
Putting , we obtain
By Theorem 3.1, we can easily get the desired conclusion. □
Corollary 3.2 Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be two bifunctions which satisfy assumptions (H1)-(H4) and be two lower semicontinuous and convex functions with restriction (A1) or (A2). Let be ζ-inverse strongly monotone, β-inverse strongly monotone, -inverse strongly monotone and -inverse strongly monotone, respectively, and let be a maximal monotone mapping. Let be a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup on H such that . Let be a real sequence such that . Let f be a contraction from C into itself with a constant α () and let A be a strongly positive linear bounded operator with coefficient such that . Assume that . Let and let be a sequence defined by
where , , , , satisfy the following conditions:
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(i)
, and ;
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(ii)
and ;
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(iii)
and ;
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(iv)
.
Then converges strongly to , which solves the following variational inequality:
and is a solution of problem (1.5), where .
Proof Put and in Theorem 3.1. Then we have from (3.30)
That is,
It follows that for all . We easily obtain the desired conclusion. □
Corollary 3.3 Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be three bifunctions which satisfy assumptions (H1)-(H4) and be three lower semicontinuous and convex functions with restriction (A1) or (A2). Let be ζ-inverse strongly monotone, β-inverse strongly monotone, -inverse strongly monotone, and -inverse strongly monotone, respectively. Let be a one-parameter nonexpansive semigroup on H such that . Let be a real sequence such that . Let f be a contraction from C into itself with a constant α () and let A be a strongly positive linear bounded operator with coefficient such that . Assume that . Let and let be a sequence defined by
where , , , , satisfy the conditions (C1)-(C4). Then converges strongly to , which solves the following variational inequality:
and is a solution of problem (1.5), where .
Proof Taking in Theorem 3.1, we can obtain desired conclusion immediately. □
Remark 3.2 Theorem 3.1 generalizes and improves Theorem 3.1 of Kumam and Wattanawitoon [14], Theorem 3.3 of Plubtieng and Punpaeng [10] and Theorem 3.1 of Shehu [13] in the following aspects:
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(1)
Algorithm of Theorem 3.1 is different from algorithms in [10, 13, 14].
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Theorem 3.1 includes Theorem 3.3 of Plubtieng and Punpaeng [10] as a special case.
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Theorem 3.1 improves Theorem 3.1 of Kumam and Wattanawitoon [14] since the generalized equilibrium problem that is within [14] is extended to the generalized mixed equilibrium problem.
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Jeong, J.U. Fixed point solutions of generalized mixed equilibrium problems and variational inclusion problems for nonexpansive semigroups. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2014, 57 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1812-2014-57
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