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Strong convergence of three-step iteration methods for a countable family of generalized strict pseudocontractions in Hilbert spaces
Fixed Point Theory and Applications volume 2014, Article number: 66 (2014)
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a new class of generalized strict pseudocontractions in a real Hilbert space, and we consider a three-step Ishikawa-type iteration method
for finding a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractions. Under mild conditions imposed on the parameter sequences , and , we prove the strong convergence of to a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz generalized strict pseudocontractions. On the other hand, we also introduce three-step hybrid viscosity approximation method for finding a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractions with , i.e., a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz pseudocontractions. Under appropriate conditions we derive the strong convergence results for this method. The results presented in this paper improve and extend the corresponding results in the earlier and recent literature.
MSC:47H06, 47H09, 47J20, 47J30.
1 Introduction
Let C be a nonempty subset of H. A mapping is said to be nonexpansive, if
A mapping is called pseudocontractive if
Note that inequality (1.2) can be equivalently written as
where I is the identity mapping on H.
A mapping is called a strict pseudocontraction [1] if for all there exists a constant such that
In this case, we also say that T is a λ-strict pseudocontraction.
In this paper, we introduce and consider the concept of generalized strict pseudocontraction. A mapping is called a generalized strict pseudocontraction if there exists a constant such that
In this case, we also say that T is a generalized λ-strict pseudocontraction. It is remarkable that whenever is a nonexpansive mapping, a pseudocontraction or a strict pseudocontraction, T is certainly a generalized strict pseudocontraction.
Apart from their being an important generalization of nonexpansive mappings and strict pseudocontractions, interest in generalized strict pseudocontractions stems mainly from the fact that they are also an important generalization of pseudocontractions. It is well known that there exists a close connection between pseudocontractions and the important class of nonlinear monotone mappings, where a mapping A with domain and range in H is called monotone if
We observe that A is monotone if and only if is pseudocontractive and thus a zero of A, , is a fixed point of T, . It is now well known (see, e.g., [2]) that if A is monotone then the solutions of the equation correspond to the equilibrium points of some evolution systems. Consequently, considerable research efforts, especially within the past 20 years or so, have been devoted to iterative methods for approximating fixed points of T when T is pseudocontractive (see, e.g., [3–5] and references therein).
The most general iterative algorithm for nonexpansive mappings studied by many authors is the following:
where and satisfies the following additional assumptions: (i) ; (ii) , the sequence generated by (1.6) is generally referred to as the Mann iteration one in the light of Mann [6].
The Mann iteration process does not generally converge to a fixed point of T even when the fixed point exists. If, for example, C is a nonexpansive, and the Mann iteration process is defined by (1.6) with (i) ; (ii) , one can only prove that the sequence is an approximate fixed point sequence. That is, as . To get the sequence to converge to a fixed point of T (when such a fixed point exists), some type of compactness condition must be additionally imposed either on C (e.g., C is compact) or on T.
Later on, some authors tried to prove convergence of Mann iteration scheme to a fixed point of a much more general and important class of Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings. But in 2001 Chidume and Mutangadura [7] gave an example of a Lipschitz pseudocontractive self-mapping on a compact convex subset of a Hilbert space with a unique fixed point for which no Mann sequence converges. Consequently, for this class of mappings, the Mann sequence may not converge to a fixed point of Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings even when C is a compact convex subset of H.
In 1974, Ishikawa [8] introduced an iteration process, which in some sense is more general than that of Mann and which converges to a fixed point of a Lipschitz pseudocontractive self-mapping T on C. The following theorem is proved.
Theorem IS [8]
If C is a compact convex subset of a Hilbert space H, is a Lipschitz pseudocontractive mapping and is any point of C, then the sequence converges strongly to a fixed point of T, where is defined iteratively for each integer by
where , are sequences of positive numbers satisfying the conditions:
-
(i)
; (ii) ; (iii) .
The iteration method of Theorem IS, which is now referred to as the Ishikawa iterative method has been studied extensively by various authors. But it is still an open question whether or not this method can be employed to approximate fixed points of Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings without the compactness assumption on C or T (see, e.g., [4, 9, 10]).
In order to obtain a strong convergence theorem for pseudocontractive mappings without the compactness assumption, Zhou [11] established the hybrid Ishikawa algorithm for Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings as follows:
He proved that the sequence defined by (1.8) converges strongly to , where is the metric projection from H into C. We observe that the iterative algorithm (1.8) generates a sequence by projecting onto the intersection of closed convex sets and for each .
In 2009, Yao et al. [12] introduced the hybrid Mann algorithm as follows. Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be a L-Lipschitz pseudocontractive mapping such that . Assume that the sequence for some . Then for and , they proved that the sequence defined by
converges strongly to .
More recently, Tang et al. [13] generalized algorithm (1.9) to the hybrid Ishikawa iterative process. Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be a Lipschitz pseudocontractive mapping. Let and be sequences in . Suppose that . For and , define a sequence of C as follows:
Then they proved that the hybrid algorithm (1.10) strongly converges to a fixed point of the Lipschitz pseudocontractive mapping T. It is worth mentioning that the schemes in (1.8)-(1.10) are not easy to compute. They involve the computation of the intersection of and for each .
Recently, Zegeye et al. [14] generalized algorithm (1.10) to Ishikawa iterative process (not hybrid) as follows. Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be a finite family of Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings with Lipschitzian constants for . Assume that the interior of is nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by
Under appropriate conditions, they proved that converges strongly to .
Very recently, Cheng and Su [15] generalized algorithm (1.11) to three-step Ishikawa-type iterative process. Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H, let be a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings with Lipschitz constants . Let . Assume that the interior of is nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
Under mild conditions, they proved that converges strongly to .
Our concern now is the following: Is it possible to prove strong convergence of three-step Ishikawa-type iterative algorithm (1.12) for finding a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz generalized strict pseudocontractive mappings?
In this paper, we consider and analyze three-step Ishikawa-type iterative algorithm (1.12) for finding a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractions. Under mild conditions imposed on the parameter sequences , and , we prove the strong convergence of to a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz generalized strict pseudocontractions. On the other hand, inspired by the viscosity approximation method [16] we also introduce a three-step hybrid viscosity approximation method for finding a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractions with , i.e., a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz pseudocontractions. Under appropriate conditions we derive the strong convergence results for this method. The results presented in this paper improve and extend the corresponding results in the earlier and recent literature; for instance, Zhou [17], Yao et al. [12], Tang et al. [13], Cheng and Su [15] and Zegeye et al. [14].
2 Preliminaries
Let C be a nonempty subset of a real Hilbert space H. A mapping is called Lipschitz continuous if there exists a constant such that
If , then T is called nonexpansive; and if , then T is called a contraction. It is easy to see from (2.1) that every contraction mapping is nonexpansive and every nonexpansive mapping is Lipschitz.
A countable family of mappings is called uniformly Lipschitz with Lipschitz constants , , if there exists such that
A countable family of mapping is called uniformly closed if and imply .
In the sequel, we also need the following definition and lemma.
Let H be a real Hilbert space. Define the function as follows:
it was studied previously by Alber [18], Kamimula and Takahashi [19] and Reich [20].
It is clear from the definition of the function Ï• that
The function Ï• also has the following property:
Lemma 2.1 [21]
Let H be a real Hilbert space. Then
The following lemma is a direct consequence of the inner product. Thus, its proof is omitted.
Lemma 2.2 Let H be a real Hilbert space. Then
Lemma 2.3 [[22], p.303]
Let and be two sequences of nonnegative real numbers satisfying the inequality
If , then exists.
3 Uniformly Lipschitz generalized strict pseudocontractions
In this section, we consider and analyze three-step Ishikawa-type iteration method introduced by Cheng and Su [15] for finding a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractive mappings with Lipschitz constants in a real Hilbert space.
Theorem 3.1 Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractive mappings with Lipschitz constants . Let . Assume that the interior of is nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
where , , and are sequences in satisfying the following conditions:
-
(i)
for some ;
-
(ii)
and for all ;
-
(iii)
with ;
-
(iv)
.
Then converges strongly to provided .
Proof Let . Utilizing Lemma 2.1, we obtain from (1.5) and (3.1)
and
In addition, utilizing (3.1), we have
Substituting (3.4) and (3.5) into (3.3), we obtain
We observe that
and
Thus, substituting (3.8) into (3.7), we get
Also, substituting (3.6) and (3.9) into (3.2), we have
Note that
Substituting (3.11) into (3.10), we obtain
In terms of condition (iii) we have
which implies that
So,
Again from condition (ii), we have , and
Hence, we get
which, together with (3.12), implies that
where for some (due to ). Consequently, we have
Utilizing condition (iv) and Lemma 2.3 we know that exists and hence is bounded. This implies that , , , , , and are also bounded.
On the other hand, from (2.3) we have
which implies that
Since the interior of F is nonempty, there exists and . Such that where . Thus, from the fact that , and from (3.14) and (3.15) we get
Then from (3.15) and (3.16), we obtain
and hence
Since h with is arbitrary, we have
So, whenever , we get
Note that converges and also converges. Thus, we find that is a Cauchy sequence. Since C is a closed subset of H, there exists such that
Furthermore, from (3.13) and conditions (i)-(iii), we get
From and the existence of , it follows that
Since are uniformly closed, from (3.17) and (3.18), we deduce that . The proof is complete. □
Remark 3.1 As previously, it is worth emphasizing that whenever is a nonexpansive mapping, a pseudocontraction or a strict pseudocontraction, T is certainly a generalized strict pseudocontraction. Here we provide an example to illustrate a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz generalized strict pseudocontractions with the interior of the common fixed points being nonempty. Suppose that and . Let be defined by
Then we observe that , and hence the interior of common fixed point set F is nonempty.
Next we show that is a countable family of nonexpansive mappings. Indeed, suppose that and .
If , we have
If , we have
If , , we have
So, it follows that is a sequence of nonexpansive mappings and hence uniformly Lipschitz with uniformly Lipschitz constant .
Finally, we show that is uniformly closed.
Case 1: If there exists such that , and , we observe that .
Case 2: If there exists such that , then if and only if we have , and it is obvious that .
If there exists :
-
(i)
∃N, as , . The proof is the same as the proof of the second case.
-
(ii)
∃N, as , . The proof is the same as the proof of the first case.
-
(iii)
, . If there exists , then we have . The proof is the same as the proof of the second case. So, we find that is uniformly closed.
Remark 3.2 In Theorem 3.1, put , , and take . Then conditions (i)-(iii) in Theorem 3.1 are satisfied. Indeed, it is clear that conditions (i)-(ii) in Theorem 3.1 are satisfied. Next we verify condition (iii) in Theorem 3.1. Observe that
Theorem 3.2 Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be a finite family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractive mappings with Lipschitzian constants , . Let . Assume that the interior of is nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
where and , , and are sequences in satisfying the following conditions:
-
(i)
for some ;
-
(ii)
and for all ;
-
(iii)
with .
Then converges strongly to provided .
If in Theorem 3.1, we consider a single Lipschitz generalized strict pseudocontractive mapping, then we get the following result.
Theorem 3.3 Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be a Lipschitz generalized λ-strict pseudocontractive mapping with Lipschitzian constant L. Assume that the interior of is nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
where , , and are sequences in satisfying the following conditions:
-
(i)
for some ;
-
(ii)
and for all ;
-
(iii)
with .
Then converges strongly to provided .
Proof Following the same process as in the proof of Theorem 3.1, we obtain .
Indeed, from (3.8) and conditions (i)-(iii), we deduce that
which yields
and hence there exists a subsequence of such that
Thus, and the continuity of T implies that . □
4 Uniformly Lipschitz pseudocontractions
In this section, we introduce and analyze a three-step hybrid viscosity approximation method for finding a common fixed point of a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz generalized -strict pseudocontractive mappings with , i.e., a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings.
Theorem 4.1 Let C be a nonempty, closed, and convex subset of a real Hilbert space H. Let be a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings with Lipschitz constants . Let . Assume that the interior of is nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
where is a contractive mapping with contractive constant and , , and are sequences in satisfying the following conditions:
-
(i)
;
-
(ii)
;
-
(iii)
for some .
Then converges strongly to .
Proof Let . Then from (4.1) and Lemma 2.2, we have
and
Substituting (4.4) and (4.5) into (4.3) we have
Since and (due to condition (iii)), for some , from (4.6) we get
which leads to
Thus,
Thus, is bounded. This implies that , , , , , , and are also bounded.
Note that
Hence it immediately follows that
By Lemma 2.3, we conclude from and the boundedness of , that exists.
Following the same process as in the proof of Theorem 3.1, we can derive
Furthermore, from (4.8) and conditions (i), (ii), and (iii), we get
which, together with , implies that
Since the are uniformly closed, from (4.9) and (4.10) we infer that . The proof is complete. □
Theorem 4.2 Let H be a real Hilbert space and let be a countable family of uniformly Lipschitz monotone mappings with Lipschitzian constants . Let . Assume that if and , then . Let the interior of be nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
where is a contractive mapping with contractive constant , and , , and are sequences in satisfying the following conditions:
-
(i)
;
-
(ii)
;
-
(iii)
for some .
Then converges strongly to .
Proof Put for . Then we know that is a countable family of uniformly closed and uniformly Lipschitz pseudocontractive mappings with . In this case, the iterative scheme (4.1) reduces to scheme (3.1) and hence the conclusion follows from Theorem 4.1. □
Corollary 4.1 Let H be a real Hilbert space and let be a finite family of uniformly Lipschitz monotone mappings with Lipschitzian constants , . Assume that if and , then . Let the interior of be nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
where , is a contractive mapping with contractive constant , and , , and are sequences in satisfying the following conditions:
-
(i)
;
-
(ii)
;
-
(iii)
for some and .
Then converges strongly to .
Corollary 4.2 Let H be a real Hilbert space, let be a Lipschitz monotone mapping with Lipschitzian constant L. Assume that the interior of is nonempty. Let be a sequence generated from an arbitrary by the following algorithm:
where is a contractive mapping with contractive constant , and , , and are sequences in satisfying the following conditions:
-
(i)
;
-
(ii)
;
-
(iii)
for some .
Then converges strongly to .
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Li, SX., Ceng, LC., Hu, HY. et al. Strong convergence of three-step iteration methods for a countable family of generalized strict pseudocontractions in Hilbert spaces. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2014, 66 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1812-2014-66
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