1. Introduction
Over the years, fixed point theory has been revealed to be a powerful and all- encompassing tool in the study of nonlinear phenomena. In this direction, several researchers have obtained different results relating to practical consequences of this field of study in areas such as tomography, quantize design, signal enhancement, signal and image reconstruction, signal and filter synthesis, telecommunications, interpolation, extrapolation, and several others. An instance of the above applications can be seen in [
1]. It is a known fact that many interesting problems that dwell in physical systems could be recast as fixed-point problems. For instance, let 
 be a signal of interest and let 
 be its accompanying distorted version. Suppose, in addition, that 
 and 
 are related by the operator equation
      
      where we have assumed that 
 is the signal measured at the reception point of the transmission system 
ð and 
 is the transmitted signal. The problem of interest is how to approximate 
 given 
 and the model 
ð of the distortion that 
 underwent. Assume 
 satisfies the constraint equation
      
Then, the identity
      
      holds. Under the seemingly general condition, the solution to the equation will give the unknown signal 
.
Recently, the concept of symmetry, a congenial characteristic of a Banach space, which is closely connected to fixed point problems [
2], has drawn the attention of renowned mathematicians worldwide. This unwavering interest has been known to stem from the practical application of this subject to different fields. Recall that a symmetry is a mapping of the object 
X, considered to be structured onto itself such that the structure is preserved. Saleem et al. [
3] and Sain [
4], illustratively gave different ways this mapping could occur. Neugebaner [
2], using the concept of symmetry, obtained several applications of a layered compression–expansion fixed-point theorem in the existence of solutions of a second-order difference equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Let 
 be a real Hilbert space with inner product 
 and induced norm 
. In this paper, 
 denotes the nonempty, close and convex subset of 
 and by 
, the set of natural numbers. Additionally, if 
 is any sequence in 
 then we shall adopt the following notations:
- (a) 
-  means that  converges strongly to  
- (b)
-  means that  converges weakly to  
Let  be a nonlinear mapping with domain  and range . The set of fixed points of  will be denoted by , while the set of common fixed points of the mappings  will be denoted by .
Definition 1. The mapping  is:
- (a) 
- Lipschitizian if there exists a constant L, such thatwhere L is the Lipschitizian constant of  It is worth noting that if  in (1) then Δ is a contraction, while Δ is called nonexpansive if  in (1) 
- (b)
- asymptotically nonexpansive (see [5]) if for all  there exists a sequence  with  such that 
- (c)
- uniformly Lipschitizian if there exists a constant L such that 
- (d)
- Asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive if  and  is satisfied; that is, if  and for all  there exists a sequence  with  such that 
 Remark 1. A uniformly Lipschitizian mapping is a superclass of the classes of nonexpansive mappings (which is a subclass of the class of asymptotically nonexpansive mapping) and asymptotically nonexpansive mappings, while the class of asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive mappings is a superclass of the classes of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings and quasi-nonexpansive mappings (recall that a nonlinear mapping  is called quasi-nonexpansive if  and , we have ) (see examples 4.1, 4.3 and 4.9 in [6] for more details).  Definition 2. A nonlinear mapping  with domain  and range  is called:
- (e)
- A strongly positive bounded linear operator if there exists a constant , such that inequalityholds. 
- (f)
- (g)
- α-strongly monotone if there exists , such that 
- (h) 
- Let , then δ-inverse strongly monotone (for short δ-ism), such that 
 Remark 2. The map  is monotone if Δ is nonexpansive. The projection operator  is inverse strongly monotone. It is a common knowledge that inverse strongly monotone operators are indispensable in solving practical problems of traffic assignment problems (see [7,8] for more details).  Approximating a fixed point for single-valued mappings is an active area of research and has attracted many established mathematicians worldwide. Since exact solutions for practical problems in different fields of human endeavor are difficult to attain, approximation via iteration scheme has become a vital tool for solving fixed-point problems. Let 
f be a contraction map on 
. Starting from an initial point 
, define the sequence 
 iteratively, as follows
      
      where 
 is a sequence in 
 The iteration sequence (9) was first introduced by Moudafi [
9] and has been positively used to approximate fixed points of different nonlinear mappings in recent times (see [
10,
11] and the reference therein for further study).
The iteration scheme for the fixed point of non-expansive mappings has been extensively investigated, mainly because of the intimate connection between non-expansive mappings and monotonicity methods. In this direction, Marino and Xu [
12] and Xu [
11] discovered that the iterative method for non-expansive mappings could be used to solve the convex minimization problem. More precisely, it was shown in [
11] that a typical minimization problem of a quadratic function of the form:
      over the set of fixed points for nonexpansive mappings in a real Hilbert space could be solved using the iteration scheme
      
      where 
 is a nonexpansive mapping and 
 is a strongly positive bounded linear operator (Recall (e) and (g) from Definition 2 that a strongly bounded linear operator is a 
–Lipschitizian and 
-strongly monotone operator).
Motivated by the results in [
9], Xu [
10] generalized (9) as follows: let 
f be a contraction on 
 and 
 be a strongly positive bounded linear operator. Let 
 be the sequence generated from an arbitrary point 
, such that
      
      where 
 is a sequence in 
 He showed that (11) converges strongly to the fixed point of 
 which at the same time serves as the solution to the variational inequality problem below:
Despite the practical value of some crucial fixed-point results obtained for the case of single-valued mappings, there have been a concentrated efforts in evaluating fixed points for nonlinear multivalued mappings. This special interest is believed to have come from the various practical applications of multivalued mappings. For instance, a monotonic operator in optimization theory is the multivalued mapping of the subdifferential of the function 
g, 
, and is defined by
      
      and 
 satisfies the condition
      
In particular, if  is a convex, continuously differentiable function, then , the gradient is a subdifferential, which is a single-valued mapping, and the condition  is an operator equation and  is variational inequalities and both conditions are closely related to optimality conditions. Hence, finding fixed points or common fixed points for multivalued mapping is an important area in applications. However, we have noticed (with concern) that fewer iteration schemes exist, especially in the direction of asymptotically nonlinear multivalued mappings.
Let 
 be a metric space, 
D a nonempty subset of 
E and 
 a multivalued mapping. A point 
 is said to be a fixed point of 
 if 
. The fixed-point set of 
 is denoted by 
. Let 
 and 
 represent the family of closed and bounded subset of 
E, the family of nonempty compact and convex subset of 
E and the family of proximinal subset of 
E, respectively. A subset 
D of 
E is called proximinal if, for each 
, there exists a point 
 for which (13) holds.
      
      where 
 It is known that every nonempty closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert is proximinal.
Let 
. The Pompieu Hausdorff metric 
 induced by the metric 
 is defined as
      
Definition 3. A multivalued mapping  is called:
- (1)
- β-Lipschitizian if there exists  such that - Note that in (14), Δ is a contraction if  and nonexpansive if . 
- (2)
- Uniformly Lipschitizian if there exists , such that 
- (3)
- asymptotically nonexpansive if, for all , there exists a sequence  with , such that 
- (4)
- asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive mapping in [13], if  and  holds; that is, if  and for all , there exists a sequence  with  such that 
 Remark 3. The class of asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive multivalued mapping is a superclass of the classes of asymptotically nonexpansive multivalued mappings and quasi-nonexpansive multivalued mappings (where a multivalued mapping  is called quasi-nonexpansive (a superclass of the class of nonspreading-type multivalued mapping) if  and for all , we have . Also, V is called nonspreading-type if the inequality  holds  Every nonspreading-type multivalued mapping with a nonempty fixed point set is quasi-nonexpansive).
 The minimization problem, an invaluable problem in application, especially in the area of nonlinear analysis and optimization theory, is defined as follows: find 
, such that
      
      where 
 is a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function. Note that problem (18) is consistent if it has a solution. The set of all solutions (minimizers) of 
g on 
 is defined as 
Let 
 be a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function. Starting from an arbitrary point 
, define the iteration scheme 
 as follows:
The fixed-point algorithm (19) for solving problem (18) was first introduced in 1970 by Martinet [
14], and was called a proximinal point algorithm (for short, PPA). In recent times, many researchers have studied and generalized (19), and many interesting results have been obtained for different classes of nonlinear single-valued and multivalued mappings: Rockfeller [
15] solved problem (18) using (19); Marino and Xu [
12], and subsequently Phuengrattan and Lerkchaiyaphum [
16], obtained weak and strong convergence to the common solution of the minimization problem and fixed-point problem using the modified version of (19) in the setting of real Hilbert spaces.
More recently, Chang et al. [
17] used the scheme
      
      where 
 is a closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space 
 and 
 is a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function, in order to prove that (20) converges weakly and strongly to the common solutions of the minimization problem of (18) and fixed point problem of nonspreading-type multivalued mapping 
 in the framework of a real Hilbert space 
Most recently, El-Yekheir et al. [
18] introduced and studied the following modified PPA: Let 
 be a closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space 
, 
 a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function and 
 a multivalued quasi-nonexpansive mapping. The PPA-Ishikawa iteration method is defined as follows:
      where 
 and 
 are sequences in 
. Using (21), they proved strong convergence results under mild conditions on the control sequences. More precisely, they proved the following theorem:
Theorem 1. Let Θ be a closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space Υ and  a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function. Let  be a b-Lipschitizian mapping and  be a multivalued quasi-nonexpansive mapping, such that  and . Let A be a k–strongly monotone and L–Lipschitizian operator. Assume that  where  and  is demiclosed at the origin. Let  be as defined by (21), where  and  are sequences in  such that  and  is a sequence such that  for all  and some λ. Then, the sequence  generated by (21) converges strongly to  the unique solution of the variational inequality problem 
 The demiclosedness principle, first studied by Opial [
19], is one of the essential tools for proving weak and strong convergence theorems for both single-valued and multivalued nonlinear mappings. It is on record that the theory of fixed points with the associated mappings satisfying demiclosedness principle due to Opial [
20] has been extensively studied for the past 40 years or so, and much more intensively recently (see, e.g., [
19,
20,
21,
22,
23] and the references therein). Although some invaluable results have been obtained, it is worth mentioning that, in some cases, the mapping 
 of the class of nonexpansive mappings defined in the setting of a real Hilbert space 
 does not necessarily satisfies the demiclosedness principle due to Opial [
20] (see example 2.1 in reference [
19] for more details). Consequently, it is natural to ask:
Question 1. Is there any way one can obtain strong convergence theorems of Halpern’s type for such mappings that fail to satisfy the original demiclosedness principle due to Opial in the setting of Banach spaces?
 Naraghrad [
19] answered the above question in the affirmative, satisfying the jointly demiclosedness principle (if 
C is a nonempty subset of a Banach space 
E, then a pair 
 satisfies jointly demiclosedness principle if 
 converges weakly to a point 
 and 
, then 
 and 
; that is, 
 is jointly demiclosed at zero) which they introduced. Later, Agwu [
24] extended the ideas of the jointly demiclosedness principle to a more general class of multivalued mappings and gave the following definition.
Definition 4 ([
24]). 
Let D be a nonempty closed convex subset of a Banach space E. A pair  of multivalued mappings  satisfies the jointly demiclosedness principle, in the sense of Naraghirad [19], if for any sequence  converging weakly to a point  and there exist  and  with  such that  as  then  and  that is,  is jointly demiclosed at zero. In particular, if  where I is the identity mapping on E, then  is demiclosed at zero. Inspired and motivated by the results in [
12,
18,
24], it is natural to ask the following question:
Question 2. Can we construct a modified proximinal point algorithm that is independent of (21)? If so, can the proposed modified PPA be used to achieve convergence results for a larger class of asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive multivalued mappings that fail to satisfy the original demiclosedness principle due to Opial in the setting of real Hilbert spaces?
 It is our purpose in this paper to give an affirmative answer to Question 2. Let 
 be a closed and convex subset of a real Hilbert space 
, 
 a proper convex and lower semicontinuous function and 
 be an asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive multivalued mappings. Then, the modified PPA iteration scheme generated by 
 for the above mentioned mappings is as follows:
      where 
 and 
 are sequences in 
Remark 4. Observe that if:
Note that (23) generalizes (19), (20) and many other iteration schemes in this direction.
   3. Main Results
Assumption Z
Assume that:
- (I)
-  is a real Hilbert space and  is closed and convex; 
- (II)
- R-  is a set of real numbers,  -  and  -  are proper convex and lower semicontinuous function and  - -Lipschitizian mappings, respectively. For a given  - , we define the Moreau–Yosida resolvent of  -  in  -  as
           
 
- (III)
-  are two asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive multivalued mappings with  and , such that  are jointly demiclosed at the origin. 
- (IV)
- Let  be an –strongly monotone and L–Lipschitizian operator. 
Algorithm Q
Let 
 and 
 be as described in Assumption Z. Then, 
 is a sequence generated as follows:
Further, let 
 and 
 retain their usual meaning. A multivalued mapping 
 is called asymptotically 
-nonspreading if there exists 
 such that
      
Note that a multivalued mapping 
 is called asymptotically nonspreading-type if 
; that is,
      
Again, if 
 is an asymptotically nonspreading-type and 
 then 
 is asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive mapping. Indeed, 
 and 
, we have
      
Theorem 2. Let  and  be as described in Assumption Z. Suppose ; ;
 where  and  is jointly demiclosed at the origin. Let  be a sequence generated by Algorithm Q, such that  satisfy the conditions:
- (i)
-  and  
- (ii)
-  for each  
- (iii) 
-  is such that  and for some  
Then,  strongly converges to , which simultaneously serves as a unique solution to the problem:  Proof.  Firstly, we prove that the solution to problem (
31) is unique. To achieve this, we assume for contradiction that there exist two points 
 which are solutions of (
31) and 
. Then, using the same argument as in the proof of the uniqueness of (
31) in [
18], we have 
 as required.
Again, we note that the operator 
 is a contraction. Now, for any two fixed numbers 
 such that 
 are in 
 and for all 
, we get, using Lemma 5, 
 and 
, that
        
According to the Banach contraction principle, the mapping 
 has a fixed point, say 
, which is equivalent to the problem:
        
The rest of the proof of Theorem 2 will be presented in stages:
Stage 1: We show that the sequence  and  are bounded. Let  and . Then, ,  and  for all  Hence,  for all 
Since 
 is firmly nonexpansive (and hence nonexpansive), we have
        
According to condition (i), there exists a constant 
 with 
 and 
. Moreover, from (30), (32), (33) and Lemma 5, we get
        
By induction, it is easy to see that
        
Hence,  is bounded, and so are the sequences , and 
Stage 2: We prove that the sequence  converges strongly to 
From (30) and Lemma 3 (ii), we obtain
        
Set 
 Then, from (30), (31), (35) Lemmas 3(i) and 5, we get
        
Set 
 so that the last inequality becomes:
        
To show that  is convergent, we consider the following two cases:
Case 1: Assume that the sequence 
 is monotonically decreasing. Then, 
 is convergent. Indeed, we have
        
Thus, by (36), condition [(i) and (ii)] and the fact that 
, we have
        
Since, 
 for 
 we get
        
Additionally, using (30), we get
        
		(40) and condition (i) imply that
        
It follows from (41) that
        
Again, for any 
, using Lemma 7 and the fact that 
, we obtain
        
Furthermore, from (30), (34), (42), (43) and Lemma 3(i), we obtain
        
        (44) implies that
        
The last inequality and condition (i) yields
        
Since
        
        it follows from (43) and (45) that
        
In addition, using (30) and Lemma 6, we get
        
		(45) and (47) imply that
        
Additionally, by the boundedness of the sequence 
, there exists a subsequence 
 of 
, such that 
. Again, from (39), we get
        
Moreover, since by assumption, the pair 
 jointly satisfy the demiclosedness principle, it follows from (49) that 
 Assume that another subsequence 
 of 
 exists, such that 
, where 
 Then, following the same argument as in [
24] with 
 and 
, we get that 
.
Next, we show that 
. Now, since 
 is a Hilbert space and the sequence 
 is bounded, it follows that there exists a subsequence 
 of 
 that converges weakly to 
 and
        
Following the information above, with 
, we have 
 Additionally, since 
 is single-valued and nonexpansive, using (48), we get 
 Therefore, 
 Thus,
        
Lastly, we prove that 
 From (30) and (35) and Lemma 5, we have
        
From (51), we obtain
		 
        where 
Then, from condition (i), we get
        
Thus, using Lemma 4 and (52), the result follows as required (i.e.,  as ).
Case 2:
Suppose 
 is a monotonically increasing sequence. Set 
 and the mapping 
, for all 
 (for some 
 large enough), by 
 Then, 
 is a nondecreasing sequence, such that 
 as 
 and 
 for 
 From (36), we have
        
        where 
 Moreover, we have
        
Following a similar argument to the one above in Case 1, we conclude that
        
Hence, for all 
 we have
        
        from which we get
        
Consequently, we have
        
        and
        
Therefore, we conclude, using Lemma 8, that
        
Hence,  that is, . This ends the proof Theorem 2.    □
 Now, in application, we employ Theorem 2 to estimate a point  without any compactness assumptions on either the space or the operators, where  is a pair of asymptotically nonspreading-type mappings.
Theorem 3. Let  and  be as described in Assumption Z. Let  be two asymptotically nonspreading-type multivalued mappings, such that ; . Assume that  where  and  is jointly demiclosed at the origin. Let  be a sequence generated by Algorithm Q, such that  satisfy conditions  and  of Theorem 2. Then,  strongly converges to , which, at the same time, serves as a unique solution to the problem:  Proof.  Since every asymptotically nonspreading-type mapping with a nonempty fixed point set is asymptotically quasi nonexpansive multivalued mapping, the proof of Theorem 3 immediately follows from Lemma 2 and Theorem 2.    □
 Again, if  are asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive single-valued mapping and  is a strongly positive bounded linear operator, then the following theorem can be obtained from Theorem 3.
Theorem 4. Let  and  be as described in Assumption Z. Let  be two asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive multivalued mappings, such that ; . Assume that  where  and  is jointly demiclosed at the origin. Let  be a sequence generated by Algorithm Q, such that  satisfy conditions  and  of Theorem 3.1. Then,  strongly converges to , which satisfies the optimality condition of the minimization problemwhere h is a potential function for  (i.e.,  on