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On new generalizations of Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2014, Article number: 493 (2014)
Abstract
In this work, we prove some new generalizations of Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem and some new fixed point theorems which are original and quite different from the well-known results in the literature.
MSC:46B20, 47H09, 54H25.
1 Introduction and preliminaries
Let be a normed space with its zero vector θ. We use and to denote respectively the closed unit ball and unit sphere centered at θ with radius 1, that is,
and
The notion of uniformly convex (UC, for short) Banach space was introduced by Clarkson [1], and the research of geometric properties of the Banach space started from 1936. The function , defined by
is called the modulus of convexity of X. The normed space X is called uniformly convex if for every . It is well known that a uniformly convex Banach space is reflexive and all Hilbert spaces and Banach spaces and () all are uniformly convex; see, e.g., [2–7] for more details. The normed space X is said to be strictly convex if whenever with . It is obvious that a Banach space X is strictly convex if and only if . It is well known that the strict convexity of a normed space X can be characterized by the properties: for any nonzero vectors , if , then for some real . For each , the modulus of convexity of X in the direction is defined by
Clearly, . The Banach space X is called uniformly convex in every direction (, for short) if for any and , . Some characterizations of Banach spaces were proved by Day et al. [7]; see also [4].
Fact 1.1 (see, e.g., [2–4, 7])
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Every UC Banach space is .
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Every Banach space is strictly convex.
Let be a Banach space and K be a given nonempty closed subset of X. For and a bounded sequence , define the asymptotic radius of at x as the number
The asymptotic radius of with respect to K is defined by
and the set
is called the asymptotic center of with respect to K. For any bounded sequence in X, is easily seen to be a nonnegative, continuous and convex functional of . Moreover, if K is a nonempty convex subset of X, then is also convex.
Fact 1.2 [[8], Lemma 2.2]
Every bounded sequence in a UCED Banach space X has a unique asymptotic center with respect to any nonempty weakly compact convex subset of X.
Definition 1.1 A normed space is said to have the -property if every bounded sequence in X has a unique asymptotic center with respect to any nonempty weakly compact convex subset of X.
According to Facts 1.1 and 1.2, it is easy to know that Hilbert spaces, UC Banach spaces and Banach spaces all have the -property.
Let C be a nonempty subset of a normed space and be a mapping. T is said to be nonexpansive if
The concept of firmly nonexpansive mappings was introduced by Bruck [9]. Let . The mapping T is said to be λ-firmly nonexpansive [9] if
It is obvious that every λ-firmly nonexpansive mapping is nonexpansive, but the converse is not true. The following example shows that there exists a nonexpansive mapping which is not a λ-firmly nonexpansive mapping for some .
Example A Let with the absolute-value norm and . Let be defined by . Then T is a nonexpansive mapping. For , and , we have
which deduces that T is not a -firmly nonexpansive mapping. In fact, T is not λ-firmly nonexpansive for all .
In 1965, Browder [10], Kirk [11] and Göhde [12] proved respectively that every nonexpansive mapping T from a nonempty weakly compact convex subset K of a uniformly convex Banach space X into itself has a fixed point. It is know that the convexity of sets and mappings plays an important role in fixed point theory and the union of convex sets does not ensure that it is convex. In 1991, Smarzewski [13] proved the following interesting theorem.
Theorem 1.1 (Smarzewski [13])
Let X be a uniformly convex Banach space and be a finite union of nonempty weakly compact convex subsets of X. If is a λ-firmly nonexpansive mapping for some , then T has a fixed point in C.
Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem (i.e., Theorem 1.1) is not always true if T is merely nonexpansive, even in .
Example B [13]
Let with the absolute-value norm and . Then the mapping defined by is nonexpansive and fixed point free.
In this paper, in order to promote Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem, we first introduce the concept of reactive firmly nonexpansive mappings.
Definition 1.2 Let C be a nonempty subset of a normed space and be a function. A mapping is said to be reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ if
Remark 1.1
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Every reactive firmly nonexpansive mapping is nonexpansive.
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(b)
It is obvious that any λ-firmly nonexpansive mapping is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to the function φ defined by for all .
Example C Let with the absolute-value norm and . Let be defined by
Then the following statements hold.
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(a)
T is a nonexpansive mapping.
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(b)
T is not -firmly nonexpansive.
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(c)
Define by
Then T is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ.
Proof Obviously, statement (a) holds. To see (b), let and . Since
we show that T is not -firmly nonexpansive. Finally, we prove (c). We consider the following four possible cases to verify
for all .
Case 1. If , then
and
So (1.1) holds for all .
Case 2. If and , then
and
Since
we prove that (1.1) holds for all and .
Case 3. If and , then
and
Since
we prove that (1.1) holds for all and .
Case 4. If , then
and
So (1.1) holds for all .
By Cases 1-4, we verify that inequality (1.1) holds for all . Hence T is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ and (c) is proved. □
In this paper, we establish some generalizations of Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem for reactive firmly nonexpansive mappings and some new fixed point theorems which are original and quite different from the well-known results in the literature.
2 New generalizations of Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem and applications to fixed point theory
In this section, we first establish a new fixed point theorem for reactive firmly nonexpansive mappings which is generalized Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem. We assume for all in the following main theorem.
Theorem 2.1 Let X be a strictly convex Banach space with its zero vector θ and be a finite union of nonempty weakly compact convex subsets of X. Let be a function and be a mapping. Suppose that
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X has the -property,
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(b)
T is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ.
Then T has a fixed point in C.
Proof Let be given. Since C is T-invariant and C is bounded, the sequence is bounded. Define the functional , the asymptotic radius of at , by
For each , let the number
and the set
be respectively the asymptotic radius and the asymptotic center of the sequence with respect to . Since X has the -property, let be the unique asymptotic center of with respect to for . So
For any k and j, since T is nonexpansive, we have
which implies
Let
Clearly, . For arbitrary , for some , . Thus we have
Taking the infimum for x over C yields . Conversely, suppose for some , . Then
By (2.2) and (2.3), we prove
Put
It is obvious that , where is the cardinal number of L. We claim that for with if and only if . Indeed, it suffices to show that if with , then . Let . Then there is some , , such that . So we obtain
and hence
By the uniqueness of asymptotic center , we have , which means that .
Next, we will prove (i.e., L is T-invariant). For any , since , from (2.1) and (2.4) it follows that
and hence . According to our claim, we get , which completes the assertion. Now, we show that T has a fixed point in L. Suppose to the contrary that T has no fixed point in L, that is, for all . Then for all . Indeed, if for some , since
and by the uniqueness of asymptotic center , we obtain . This means that is a fixed point for T, contradicting our assumption, hence for all . For , there exists such that for some . Since
it follows that
Since T is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ, we have
for , where (the identity mapping). Therefore, in view of strict convexity of the norm, there is such that
From (2.5) and (2.6), we have
which implies that for all i. So, by (2.6) again, we get
Since
we obtain
which implies , contradicting the fact that . Therefore T must have a fixed point in and this completes the proof. □
The following results are immediate consequences of Theorem 2.1.
Corollary 2.1 Let X be a strictly convex Banach space with its zero vector θ and be a finite union of nonempty weakly compact convex subsets of X. Let be a mapping. Suppose that
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(a)
X has the -property,
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(b)
T is λ-firmly nonexpansive for some .
Then T has a fixed point in C.
Corollary 2.2 Let be a finite union of nonempty weakly compact convex subsets of a UCED Banach space X and be a function. If is T is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ, then T has a fixed point in C.
Corollary 2.3 [[8], Theorem 2.8]
Let be a finite union of nonempty weakly compact convex subsets of a UCED Banach space X. If is λ-firmly nonexpansive for some , then T has a fixed point in C.
Remark 2.1 Theorem 2.1 and Corollaries 2.1 and 2.2 all generalize and improve Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem, [[8], Theorem 2.8] and [[14], Theorems 2.8, 2.9].
In Theorem 2.1, if , then we obtain the following new fixed point theorem.
Theorem 2.2 Let X be a strictly convex Banach space with its zero vector θ and C be a nonempty weakly compact convex subset of X. Let be a function and be a mapping. Suppose that
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(a)
X has the -property,
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(b)
T is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ.
Then T has a fixed point in C.
The following results are immediate from Theorem 2.2.
Corollary 2.4 Let X be a strictly convex Banach space with its zero vector θ and C be a nonempty weakly compact convex subset of X. Let be a function and be a mapping. Suppose that
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(a)
X has the -property,
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(b)
T is λ-firmly nonexpansive for some .
Then T has a fixed point in C.
Corollary 2.5 Let C be a nonempty weakly compact convex subset of a UCED Banach space X. Let be a function. If is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ, then T has a fixed point in C.
Corollary 2.6 Let C be a nonempty weakly compact convex subset of a UCED Banach space X. If is λ-firmly nonexpansive for some , then T has a fixed point in C.
Definition 2.1 Let C be a nonempty subset of a normed space and . A mapping is said to be -firmly nonexpansive if
Finally, by applying Theorem 2.1, we give some new fixed point theorems for -firmly nonexpansive mappings.
Theorem 2.3 Let X be a strictly convex Banach space with its zero vector θ and be a finite union of nonempty weakly compact convex subsets of X. Let be a mapping and α, β be positive real numbers satisfying . Suppose that
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(a)
X has the -property,
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(b)
T is -firmly nonexpansive.
Then T has a fixed point in C.
Proof Since and , we have . Define by
Due to T is -firmly nonexpansive, we obtain
for all . So, T is reactive firmly nonexpansive with respect to φ. Therefore the conclusion follows from Theorem 2.1. □
Corollary 2.7 Let C be a nonempty weakly compact convex subset of a UCED Banach space X. Let α, β be positive real numbers satisfying . If is -firmly nonexpansive, then T has a fixed point in C.
Corollary 2.8 Let C be a nonempty weakly compact convex subset of a uniformly convex Banach space X. Let α, β be positive real numbers satisfying . If is -firmly nonexpansive, then T has a fixed point in C.
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The author was supported by Grant No. MOST 103-2115-M-017-001 of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China.
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Du, WS. On new generalizations of Smarzewski’s fixed point theorem. J Inequal Appl 2014, 493 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2014-493
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