1. Introduction
Let E be a real Banach space, and let be the dual space of E. Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of E. Recall that a mapping is called contractive if there exists such that and that a mapping is called nonexpansive if .
Let
J denote the normalized duality mapping from
E into
defined by
where
denotes the generalized duality pair between
E and
. The mapping
is called
pseudocontractive (respectively,
strong pseudocontractive), if there exists
such that
(respectively,
for some
).
The class of pseudocontractive mappings is one of the most important classes of mappings in nonlinear analysis, and it has been attracting mathematician’s interest. Apart from them being a generalization of nonexpansive mappings, interest in pseudocontractive mappings stems mainly from their firm connection with the class of accretive mappings, where a mapping
A with domain
and range
in
E is called accretive if the inequality
holds for every
and for all
.
Within the past 50 years or so, many authors have been devoting their study to the existence of zeros of accretive mappings or fixed points of pseudocontractive mappings and several iterative methods for finding zeros of accretive mappings or fixed points of pseudocontractive mappings. We can refer to References [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14] and the references in therein.
In 2007, Morales [
15] introduced the following viscosity iterative method for pseudocontractive mapping:
where
is a continuous pseudocontractive mapping satisfying the weakly inward condition and
is a bounded continuous strongly pseudocontractive mapping. In a reflexive Banach space with a uniformly Gâteaux differentiable norm such that every closed convex bounded subset of
C has the fixed point property for nonexpansive self-mappings, he proved the strong convergence of the sequences generated by the iterative method in Equation (
1) to a point
q in
(the set of fixed points of
T), where
q is the unique solution to the following variational inequality:
In 2009, using the method of Reference [
16], Ceng et al. [
17] introduced the following modified viscosity iterative method and modified implicit viscosity iterative method with a perturbed mapping for a pseudocontractive mapping:
where
,
is a continuous pseudocontractive mapping,
is a nonexpansive mapping, and
is a Lipschitz strongly pseudocontractive mapping.
and
where
is a contractive mapping,
is an arbitrary initial point, and
,
,
such that
and
. In a reflexive and strictly convex Banach space with a uniformly Gâteaux differentiable norm, they proved the strong convergence of the sequences generated by the iterative methods in Equations (
3)–(
5) to a point
q in
, where
q is the unique solution to the variational inequality in Equation (
2). Their results developed and improved the corresponding results of Song and Chen [
11], Zeng and Yao [
16], Xu [
18], Xu and Ori [
19], and Chen et al. [
20].
In this paper, as a continuation of study in this direction, in a reflexive Banach space having a weakly sequentially continuous duality mapping
with gauge function
, we consider the viscosity iterative methods in Equations (
3)–(
5) for a continuous pseudocontractive mapping
T, a continuous bounded strongly pseudocontractive mapping
f, and a nonexpansive mapping
S. We establish strong convergence of the sequences generated by proposed iterative methods to a fixed point of the mapping
T, which solves a variational inequality related to
f. The main results develop and supplement the corresponding results of Song and Chen [
11], Morales [
15], Ceng et al. [
17], and Xu [
18] to different Banach space as well as Zeng and Yao [
16], Xu and Ori [
19], Chen et al. [
20], and the references therein.
2. Preliminaries
Throughout the paper, we use the following notations: for weak convergence, for weak convergence, and for strong convergence.
Let E be a real Banach space with the norm , and let be its dual. The value of at will be denoted by . Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of E, and let be a mapping. We denote the set of fixed points of the mapping T by . That is, .
Recall that a Banach space
E is said to be
smooth if for each
, there exists a unique functional
such that
and
and that a Banach space
E is said to be
strictly convex [
21] if the following implication holds for
:
By a gauge function, we mean a continuous strictly increasing function
defined on
such that
and
. The mapping
defined by
is called the
duality mapping with gauge function
. In particular, the duality mapping with gauge function
denoted by
J is referred to as the
normalized duality mapping. It is known that a Banach space
E is smooth if and only if the normalized duality mapping
J is single-valued. The following property of duality mapping is also well-known:
where
is the set of all real numbers. The following are some elementary properties of the duality mapping
J [
21,
22]:
- (i)
For , is nonempty, bounded, closed, and convex;
- (ii)
;
- (iii)
for and a real , ;
- (iv)
for , and , ;
- (v)
for , , .
We say that a Banach space
E has a
weakly continuous duality mapping if there exists a gauge function
such that the duality mapping
is single-valued and continuous from the weak topology to the weak
topology, that is, for any
with
,
. A duality mapping
is weakly continuous at 0 if
is single-valued and if
,
. For example, every
space
has a weakly continuous duality mapping with gauge function
[
21,
22,
23]. Set
Then it is known that
is the subdifferential of the convex functional
at
x. A Banach space
E that has a weakly continuous duality mapping implies that
E satisfies Opial’s property. This means that whenever
and
, we have
[
21,
23].
The following lemma is Lemma 2.1 of Jung [
24].
Lemma 1. ([
24])
Let E be a reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality mapping with gauge function φ. Let be a bounded sequence of E and be a continuous mapping. Let be defined byfor . Then, g is a real valued continuous function on E. We need the following well-known lemma for the proof of our main result [
21,
22].
Lemma 2. Let E be a real Banach space, and let φ be a continuous strictly increasing function onsuch thatand. DefineThen, the following inequalities hold:where. The following lemma can be found in Reference [
18].
Lemma 3. ([
18])
Let be a sequence of nonnegative real numbers satisfyingwhere and satisfy the following conditions:
- (i)
andor, equivalently,
- (ii)
or
Then,.
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Banach space E. Recall that is called accretive if is pseudocontractive. If is a pseudocontractive mapping, then is accretive. We denote . Then, and the operator is nonexpansive and single-valued, where I denotes the identity mapping.
We also need the following result which can be found in Reference [
11].
Lemma 4. ([
11])
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Banach space E, and let be a continuous pseudocontractive mapping. We denote .- (i)
The mapping A is nonexpansive self-mapping on C, i.e., for all, there holds - (ii)
If, then.
The following Lemmas, which are well-known, can be found in many books in the geometry of Banach spaces (see References [
21,
23]).
Lemma 5. (Demiclosedness Principle) Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space E, and let be a nonexpansive mapping. Then, in C and imply that .
Lemma 6. If E is a Banach space such thatis strictly convex, then E is smooth and any duality mapping is norm-to-weak-continuous.
Finally, we need the following result which was given by Deimling [
4].
Lemma 7. ([
4])
Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space E, and let be a continuous strong pseudocontractive mapping with a pseudocontractive coefficient . Then, T has a unique fixed point in C. 3. Convergence of Path with Perturbed Mapping
As we know, the path convergency plays an important role in proving the convergence of iterative methods to approximate fixed points. In this direction, we first prove the existence of a path for a convex combination of a pseudocontractive type of mappings with a perturbed mapping and boundedness of the path.
Proposition 1. Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Banach space E. Letbe a continuous pseudocontractive mapping, letbe a nonexpansive mapping, and letbe a continuous strongly pseudocontractive mapping with a pseudocontractive coefficient.
- (i)
There exists a unique path,, satisfyingprovidedis continuous and. - (ii)
In particular, if T has a fixed point in C, then the pathis bounded.
Proof. (i) For each
, define the mapping
as follows:
where
and
. Then, it is easy to show that the mapping
is a continuous strongly pseudocontractive self-mapping of
C. Therefore, by Lemma 7,
has a unique fixed point in
C, i.e., for each given
, there exists
such that
To show continuity, let
. Then, there exists
such that
and this implies that
and, hence,
Therefore,
which guarantees continuity.
(ii) By the same argument as in the proof of Theorem 2.1 of Reference [
17], we can prove that
defined by Equation (
7) is bounded for
for some
, and so we omit its proof. □
The above path of Equation (
7) is called the
modified viscosity iterative method with perturbed mapping, where
S is called the perturbed mapping.
The following result gives conditions for existence of a solution of a variational inequality:
Theorem 1. Let E be a Banach space such thatis strictly convex. Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of a real Banach space E. Letbe a continuous pseudocontractive mapping with, letbe a nonexpansive mapping, and letbe a continuous strongly pseudocontractive mapping with a pseudocontractive coefficient. Suppose thatdefined by Equation (7) converges strongly to a point in. If we define, then q is a solution of the variational inequality in Equation (8). Proof. First, from Lemma 6, we note that E is smooth and is norm-to-weak-continuous.
Since
we have for
Since
is accretive and
is a positive-scalar multiple of
(see Equation (
6)), it follow from Equation (
9) that
Taking the limit as
, by
, we obtain
This completes the proof. □
The following lemma provides conditions under which
defined by Equation (
7) converges strongly to a point in
.
Lemma 8. Let E be a reflexive smooth Banach space having Opial’s property and having some duality mappingweakly continuous at 0. Let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of E. Letbe a continuous pseudocontractive mapping with, letbe a nonexpansive mapping, and letbe a continuous bounded strongly pseudocontractive mapping with a pseudocontractive coefficient. Then,defined by Equation (7) converges strongly to a point inas. Proof. First, from Proposition 1 (ii), we know that is bounded for for some .
Since
f is a bounded mapping and
S is a nonexpansive mapping,
and
are bounded. Moreover, noting that
, we have
which implies that
Thus, we obtain
and so
is bounded. This implies that
Now, let
for some
be such that
, and let
be a subsequence of
. Then,
Let
. Then, we have
and
Thus, it follows that
Hence, we get
that is,
Therefore, we have
On the other hand, since
is bounded and
E is reflexive,
has a weakly convergent subsequence
, say,
. From Equation (
11), it follows that
From Lemma 4, we know that the mapping
is nonexpansive, that
, and that
. Thus, by Lemma 5,
. Therefore, by Equation (
12) and the assumption that
is weakly continuous at 0, we obtain
Since
is continuous and strictly increasing, we must have
.
Now, we will show that every weakly convergent subsequence of
has the same limit. Suppose that
and
. Then, by the above proof, we have
and
and
. By Equation (
12), we have the following for all
:
and
Taking limits, we get
and
Adding up Equations (
13) and (
14) yields
Since , this implies , that is, . Hence, is strongly convergent to a point in as .
The same argument shows that, if , then the subsequence of for some is strongly convergent to the same limit. Thus, as , converges strongly to a point in . □
Using Theorem 1 and Lemma 8, we show the existence of a unique solution of the variational inequality in Equation (
8) in a reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality mapping.
Theorem 2. Let E be a reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality mappingwith gauge function φ, and let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of E. Letbe a continuous pseudocontractive mapping such that, letbe a nonexpansive mapping, and letbe a continuous bounded strongly pseudocontractive mapping with a pseudocontractive coefficient. Then, there exists the unique solution inof the variational inequality in Equation (8), wherewithbeing defined by Equation (7). Proof. We notice that the definition of the weak continuity of the duality mapping
implies that
E is smooth. Thus,
is strictly convex for reflexivity of
E. By Lemma 8,
defined by Equation (
7) converges strongly to a point
q in
as
. Hence, by Theorem 1,
q is the unique solution of the variational inequality in Equation (
8). In fact, suppose that
satisfy the variational inequality in Equation (
8). Then, we have
Adding these two inequalities, we have
and so
. □
As a direct consequence of Theorem 2, we have the following result.
Corollary 1. ([20, Theorem 3.2])
Let E be a reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality mapping with gauge function φ, and let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of E. Let be a continuous pseudocontractive mapping such that , and let be a continuous bounded strongly pseudocontractive mapping with a pseudocontractive coefficient . Let be defined byThen, as,converges strongly to a some point of T such that q is the unique solution of the variational inequality in Equation (8). Proof. Put and for all . Then, the result follows immediately from Theorem 2. □
Remark 1. - (1)
Theorem 2 develops and supplements Theorem 2.1 of Ceng et al. [17] in the following aspects: - (i)
The space is replaced by the space having a weakly continuous duality mappingwith gauge function φ.
- (ii)
The Lipischiz strongly pseudocontractive mapping f in Theorem 2.1 in Reference [17] is replaced by a bounded continuous strongly pseudocontractive mapping f in Theorem 2.
- (2)
Corollary 1 complements Theorem 2.1 of Song and Chen [11] and Corollary 2.2 of Cent et al. [17] by replacing the Lipischiz strongly pseudocontractive mapping f in References [11,17] by the bounded continuous strongly pseudocontractive mapping f in Corollary 3.5 in a reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality mappingwith gauge function φ. - (3)
Corollary 1 also develops Theorem 2 of Morales [15] to a reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality mappingwith gauge function φ.