1. Introduction
Let
H be a real Hilbert space and
C be a nonempty subset of
H. Let
be a nonlinear mapping and denote the sets of the fixed and attractive points of
M by
and
, respectively, i.e.,
and
. A mapping
M of
C onto
H is called an
-generalized hybrid mapping [
1] if there exist
such that
We call the mapping
M nonexpansive if
and
. We call the mapping
M hybrid [
2,
3] if
and
. In addition, if
and
, the mapping
M reduces to nonspreading [
2,
4], i.e.,
. In 1975, Bailon [
5] proved the first nonlinear mean convergence theorem. He proved that a sequence
of the Cesaro mean defined for all
by
converges weakly to an element
, where
is known to be nonexpansive with
. Kocourek et al. [
1] extended the work of Baillon by considering a larger class of mappings
M more general than that of nonexpansive. They proved that for any
, a sequence
defined by
converges weakly to an element
, where
M is a generalized hybrid mapping with
nonempty. It is worth mentioning that the nonempty subset
C of
H is assumed to be closed and convex in the works of both Baillon [
5] and Kocourek et al. [
1]. However, not all the cases are true in respect to
C, for example, when
C is a star-shaped (see Definition 1 below) subset of
H.
Takahashi and Takeuchi [
6] introduced the concept of an attractive point of a nonlinear mapping in the setting of Hilbert spaces. They proved the attractive point and nonlinear mean convergence theorem without a convexity assumption for a generalized hybrid mapping
in the space. In fact, they defined sequences
and
by
for all
and proved that if
is bounded, then
converges weakly to an element
. Takahashi et al. [
7] defined a sequence
for all
by
and proved that
converges weakly to
, where
and
P is a metric projection. Another class of mappings which is said to include a special case, that of the generalized hybrid, was introduced. By considering two commutative 2-generalized hybrid mappings
, Hojo et al. [
8] defined a sequence
by
for all
. They proved that the sequence
converges weakly to an element
. By considering two commutative normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings
M and
N and a bounded sequence
, Hojo et al. [
9] defined a sequence
by
for all
and proved that every cluster point of
is a point in
.
In 2013, Lin and Takahashi [
10] extended the concept of the attractive point to smooth Banach spaces. By considering a generalized nonspreading mapping
M of a nonempty subset
C of a smooth and reflexive Banach space
E onto itself, Lin et al. [
11] defined a sequence
by
for all
and proved that if a subsequence
of
converges weakly to
p then
. Takahashi et al. [
12] defined a sequence
for all
by
and proved that
converges weakly to
, where
and
R is a sunny generalized nonexpansive retraction. By considering two commutative 2-generalized nonspreading mappings
M and
N of a nonempty subset
C of a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space
E into itself, Takahashi et al. [
13] (see also Alsulami et al. [
14]) defined a sequence
by
for all
and proved that
converges weakly to
.
For the Bregman version of the generalized nonspreading mapping, the generic generalized nonspreading mapping and the 2-generalized nonspreading mapping, see [
15,
16]. By considering two commutative generic 2-generalized nonspreading mappings
M and
N of a nonempty subset
C of a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space
E into itself, Hojo and Takahashi [
17] defined a sequence
by
for all
and proved that
converges weakly to a point in
.
1.1. Our Contributions
Motivated and inspired by the corresponding results in [
1,
5,
7,
8,
9,
11,
13,
14,
15,
17,
18,
19], our contributions in this paper are:
1.2. Organization
We organize the rest of our paper as follows:
Section 2 contains some basic definitions and related results which are needed in other subsequent sections. In
Section 3, we present and discuss our main results.
2. Preliminaries
Definition 1. Let C be a nonempty subset of H. Then C is called star-shaped if there exists a such that for any and , Such a is called a center of the star-shaped set C.
A mapping
is called a normally generalized hybrid [
7] if there exist
such that
where (a)
and (b)
or
. Observe that if
, then
M reduces to a generalized hybrid mapping.
A mapping
M of
C into
H is called 2-generalized hybrid [
20] if there exist
such that
Observe that if , then the mapping reduces to a generalized hybrid.
As a unification of the normally generalized hybrid mapping and the 2-generalized hybrid mapping, a new nonlinear mapping is introduced. A mapping
is called a normally 2-generalized hybrid [
21] if there exist
such that
where
and
.
In another development, the class of generalized hybrid mappings was extended to that of generalized nonspreading mappings in Banach spaces more general than Hilbert. Let
E be a smooth Banach space. A mapping
is called generalized nonspreading [
22] if there exist
such that
where a map
is a function defined by
for all
and
is a duality map defined by
Observe that if
, then we have
, and consequently, an
-generalized nonspreading mapping reduces to an
-generalized hybrid mapping.
A mapping
is called generic generalized nonspreading [
12] if there exist
and
such that
where (i)
and (ii)
. Observe that a generic generalized nonspreading mapping reduces to a generalized nonspreading mapping if
.
A mapping
is called 2-generalized nonspreading [
19] if there exist
,
such that
Observe that if , then a 2-generalized nonspreading mapping reduces to a generalized nonspreading.
A mapping
is called generic 2-generalized nonspreading [
23] if there exist
,
such that
where
and
.
Let
E be a real Banach space and
be a function. The gradient of
f at
x is the function
defined by
=
, for any
int(dom(
f)) and
, where
is the derivative of
f at
x in the direction
y which is defined as
The function
f is said to be G
teaux-differentiable at
x if the limit in (
2) exists for any
y. In addition,
f is said to be G
teaux-differentiable if it is G
teaux-differentiable at every
int(dom(
f)). The function
f is said to be Fr
chet-differentiable at
x if the limit in (
2) is attained uniformly in
y with
. In addition,
f is said to be Fr
chet-differentiable on a subset
C of
X if the limit (
2) is attained uniformly for
and
. It is known from [
24] that if a continuous convex function
f is Fr
chet-differentiable (resp. G
teaux-differentiable) in int(dom(
f)), then
is continuous (resp. norm-to-weak
continuous) in int(dom(
f)).
Let
be a convex and G
teaux-differentiable function. The Bregman distance with respect to
f [
25,
26] denoted by
is a function
dom
int(dom
, defined by
Remark 1. If E is a smooth Banach space and for all , then the gradient of f reduces to for all , and subsequently, . In addition, if is a real Hilbert space, then .
For any
and
, the three-point identity can easily be obtained from (
3) and is given by
We now define the Bregman version of a Takahashi-type generic 2-generalized nonspreading mapping [
23] in a reflexive Banach space
E.
Definition 2. A mapping is called generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading if there exist , such that , and Remark 2. Observe that by setting , the mapping in Definition 2 reduces to a generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspeading mapping in the sense of Ali and Haruna [16]. In addition, if E is smooth and , then the mapping reduces to generic 2-generalized nonspreading in the sense of Takahashi [23]. Furthermore, if is a real Hilbert space, the mapping reduces to a normally 2-generalized hybrid mapping in the sense of Kondo and Takahashi [21]. Example 1. Let and . Let and be defined by Observe that for the choice of real numbers , and , we see that ; and , for all , where Therefore, M is a generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mapping.
Let
E be a reflexive Banach space and
T be a mapping of a nonempty subset
C of
into
E. We denote the set of Bregman attractive points of
T by
and that of Bregman skew-attractive points [
27] by
, i.e.,
and
.
Lemma 1 ([
27]).
Let E be a reflexive Banach space and a convex, continuous, strongly coercive and Gteaux-differentiable function which is bounded on bounded subsets and uniformly convex on bounded subsets of E. Let C be a nonempty subset of E and be a mapping. Then is closed and convex. Lemma 2 ([
27]).
Let E be a reflexive Banach space and a convex, continuous, strongly coercive and Gteaux-differentiable function which is bounded on bounded sets, uniformly convex and uniformly smooth on bounded sets. Let C be a nonempty subset of E and be a mapping. Let be the duality mapping of T. Then the following assertions hold:- (1)
;
- (2)
.
In particular, is closed and convex.
Let
C be a nonempty subset of a Banach space
X. A mapping
of
X into
C is said to be sunny [
28] if
for each
and
. A mapping
is said to be retraction [
28] if
for all
. A nonempty subset
C of
X is said to be a sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retract (resp. a Bregman generalized nonexpansive retract) of
X if there exists a sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retraction (resp. a Bregman generalized nonexpansive retraction) of
X onto
C, see [
29] for details.
Lemma 3 ([
30]).
Let E be a reflexive Banach space and a convex, continuous, strongly coercive function which is bounded on bounded sets and uniformly convex and uniformly smooth on bounded sets. Let C be a nonempty closed subset of E. Then the following statements are equivalent- (1)
C is a sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retract of E;
- (2)
C is a Bregman generalized nonexpansive retract of E;
- (3)
is closed and convex.
Using Lemma 3, the following result can be established.
Lemma 4. Let E be a reflexive Banach space and let be a family of sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retracts of E such that is nonempty. Then is a sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retract of E.
Proof. It is easy to see
. Indeed,
Thus, from Lemma 3 above, is closed and closed for each . Therefore, is closed and closed. Hence, we have that is a sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retract of E. □
Lemma 5 ([
30]).
Let E be a reflexive Banach space and be a strongly coercive Bregman function. Let C be a nonempty closed subset of E and let be a retraction from E onto C. Then the following assertions are equivalent:- (1)
is sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive;
- (2)
, .
Lemma 6 ([
31]).
Let E be a Banach space and . Let be the gauge function of uniform convexity of g where is a convex function which is uniformly convex on bounded subsets of E. Then the following hold:- (1)
For any and , ;
- (2)
For any , .
Lemma 7 ([
32], Theorem 7.3 (vi)).
Suppose and . If f is strictly convex, then . 3. Main Results
In this section, we prove a nonlinear mean convergence theorem without convexity for finite commutative generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings. The following lemma will play a vital role.
Lemma 8. Let be a convex and uniformly Frchet-differentiable function which is bounded on bounded subsets of E. Let C be a nonempty subset of and be finite commutative generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if f is strictly convex and C is closed and conve, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Proof. Since
is a generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mapping, then by Definition 2, we have
Using the three-point identity (
4), we obtain
Since
, we obtain from Inequality (
5) that
Following the hypothesis, we can take
such that the set
is bounded. Now, we replace
x with
so that from Inequality (
6) we obtain
Summing Inequality (
7) with respect to
, we obtain
Again, summing Inequality (
8) with respect to
, we obtain
We continue summing Inequality (9) until with respect to
, and we obtain
Dividing both sides of Inequality (
10) by
and letting
, we obtain
Since
E is reflexive and
is bounded, then there exists a subsequence
of
such that
converges weakly to some point
. Now, replacing
n with
in Inequality (
11) and allowing
, we obtain
Using Equation (
4) and the fact that
, we obtain
By the commutative nature of
, we can replace
in (
14) with any of the
so that for all
we obtain
Therefore, from (
14)–(16), we have
. Hence, every weak cluster point of
is a point of
. Additionally, if
f is strictly convex and
C is closed and convex, then we put
in (
14)–(16) and we see that by Lemma 7,
. Hence, every weak cluster point of
is a point of
. This completes the proof. □
Following a similar argument as in the proof of Lemma 8, the following new results with respect to finite generic 2-generalized nonspreading mappings and normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings can be established.
Lemma 9. Let E be a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space and C a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative generic 2-generalized nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Proof. Let
E be a smooth Banach space and
. Then by Remark 2, the mapping reduces to generic 2-generalized nonspreading in the sense of Takahashi [
23]. Following a similar argument as in the proof of Lemma 8 with the use of
in the place where Equation (
4) is applied, we obtain the desired results. This completes the proof. □
Lemma 10. Let E be a real Hilbert space and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Proof. Since
E is a real Hilbert space, then the mapping reduces to normally 2-generalized hybrid [
21], i.e., there exist
such that
where
,
,
,
,
and
satisfying
and
. Following similar argument as in the proof of Lemma 8 with the use of
in the place where Equation (
4) is applied, we obtain the desired results. This completes the proof. □
As direct consequences of Lemmas 8–10, the following results corresponding to the ones in Ali and Haruna [
15], Hojo and Takahashi [
17] and Hojo et al. [
9] can be obtained as corollaries.
Corollary 1 ([
15], Theorem 3.3).
Let be a convex and uniformly Frchet-differentiable function which is bounded on bounded subsets of E. Let C be a nonempty subset of and be two commutative generic generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if f is strictly convex and C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Corollary 2 ([
17], Lemma 3.1).
Let E be a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space and C a nonempty subset of E. Let be two commutative generic 2-generalized nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Corollary 3 ([
9], Lemma 3.1).
Let E be a real Hilbert space and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be two commutative normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if C is closed and convex then every weak cluster point of is a point of . In view of the fact that the generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading (simply nonspreading) mapping unifies the generic generalized Bregman nonspreading (simply nonspreading) mapping and the 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading (simply nonspreading) mapping, the following results can be obtained from Lemmas 8 and 9 as corollaries. These results correspond to the ones in Ali and Haruna [
15], Alsulami et al. [
14] Takahashi et al. [
12], Takahashi et al. [
13] and Lin et al. [
11] when one or two mappings are considered.
Corollary 4 ([
15]).
Let be a convex and uniformly Frchet-differentiable function which is bounded on bounded subsets of E. Let C be a nonempty subset of and be finite commutative generic generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if f is strictly convex and C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Corollary 5 ([
15]).
Let be a convex and uniformly Frchet-differentiable function which is bounded on bounded subsets of X. Let C be a nonempty subset of and be finite commutative 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if f is strictly convex and C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Corollary 6 ([
11,
12]).
Let E be a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space and C a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative generic generalized nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if f is strictly convex and C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Corollary 7 ([
13,
14]).
Let E be a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space and C a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative 2-generalized nonspreading mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if f is strictly convex and C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . In addition, in view of the fact that the normally 2-generalized hybrid mapping unifies the normally generalized hybrid mapping and 2-generalized hybrid mapping, we obtain the following results from Lemma 10 as corollaries. These results correspond to the ones in Hojo et al. [
8], Takahashi et al. [
7] and Takahashi et al. [
33] when only one or two mappings are considered.
Corollary 8 ([
7]).
Let E be a real Hilbert space and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative normally generalized hybrid mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Corollary 9 ([
8,
33]).
Let E be a real Hilbert space and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative 2-generalized hybrid mappings such that the set is bounded for some . Define a sequence byfor all . Then every weak cluster point of is a point of . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then every weak cluster point of is a point of . We now prove a nonlinear mean convergence theorem for finite commutative generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings in a reflexive Banach space
E. Let
. Then
D is a directed set by the binary relation:
Theorem 1. Let E be a smooth, strictly convex and reflexive Banach space and a strongly coercive Bregman function which is bounded, uniformly convex and uniformly smooth on bounded sets. Let be finite commutative generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings of a nonempty subset C of into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto , and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . Proof. Using Lemmas 1 and 2, we see that
and
are closed and convex, respectively. Thus, by Lemma 4, there exists a sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retraction
of
E on
which is characterized (see Lemma 5) by
Adding
on both sides of Inequality (
17), we obtain
Since
, then for any
,
. It follows that for any
with
, we have
Therefore, the net
is nonincreasing. Putting
and
in (
18), we obtain from (2) of Lemma 6 that
where
is a gauge function of uniform convexity. From the properties of
,
is a Cauchy net, see [
34]. Hence,
converges strongly to
since
is closed by Lemma 1.
Next, we consider a fixed
and an arbitrary subsequence
of
that converges weakly to
v. We know from Lemma 8 that
. Rewriting the characterization of the retraction, we have that for any
,
Thus,
where
M is an upper bound for
. Summing Inequality (
19) with respect to
,
up to
, and dividing through by
, we obtain
where
. Replacing
n with
in (
20) and allowing
, keeping in mind that
is continuous, we obtain
This inequality holds for any . Thus, . Since , then . Therefore, the sequence converges weakly to the point q. If, in addition, C is closed and convex, then . Hence, converges weakly to a point of . This completes the proof. □
Following a similar argument as in Theorem 1, we can establish the following new results for finite generic 2-generalized nonspreading mappings and normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings.
Corollary 10. Let E be a uniformly convex Banach space with a Frchet-differentiable norm and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative generic 2-generalized nonspreading mappings of the nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . Corollary 11. Let E be a real Hilbert space and be finite commutative normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings of a nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the metric projection of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . As direct consequences of Theorem 1, Corollary 10 and Theorem 11, the following results can be obtained as corollaries. These results correspond to the ones in Ali and Haruna [
15], Hojo and Takahashi [
17], Hojo et al. [
9] and Kondo and Takahashi [
21].
Corollary 12 ([
15]).
Let be a strongly coercive Bregman function which is bounded, uniformly convex and uniformly smooth on bounded sets. Let be two commutative generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings of a nonempty subset C of into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . Corollary 13 ([
17], Theorem 4.4).
Let E be a uniformly convex Banach space with a Frchet-differentiable norm and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be two commutative generic 2-generalized nonspreading mappings of the nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Corollary 14 ([
9], Theorem 3.2).
Let E be a real Hilbert space and be two commutative normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings of a nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the metric projection of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . In view of the fact that the generic 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading (simply nonspreading) mapping unifies the generic generalized Bregman nonspreading (simply nonspreading) mapping and the 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading (simply nonspreading) mapping, we can prove the following results as corollaries which correspond to the ones in Alsulami et al. [
14], Lin et al. [
11] and Takahashi et al. [
12,
13] when only one or two mappings are considered.
Corollary 15. Let be a strongly coercive Bregman function which is bounded, uniformly convex and uniformly smooth on bounded sets. Let be finite commutative generic generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings of a nonempty subset C of into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . Corollary 16. Let be a strongly coercive Bregman function which is bounded, uniformly convex and uniformly smooth on bounded sets. Let be finite commutative 2-generalized Bregman nonspreading mappings of a nonempty subset C of into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny Bregman generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . Corollary 17 ([
11,
12]).
Let E be a uniformly convex Banach space with a Frchet-differentiable norm and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative generic generalized nonspreading mappings of the nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . Corollary 18 ([
13,
14]).
Let E be a uniformly convex Banach space with a Frchet-differentiable norm and C be a nonempty subset of E. Let be finite commutative 2-generalized nonspreading mappings of the nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the sunny generalized nonexpansive retraction of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . In view of the fact that the class of normally 2-generalized hybrid mappings unifies those of normally generalized hybrid and 2-generalized hybrid mappings, these results correspond to the ones in [
7,
8] when only one or two mappings are considered.
Corollary 19 ([
7]).
Let E be a real Hilbert space and be finite commutative normally generalized hybrid mappings of a nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the metric projection of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element . Corollary 20 ([
8]).
Let E be a real Hilbert space and be finite commutative 2-generalized hybrid mappings of a nonempty subset C of E into itself such that , for . Let be the metric projection of E onto and define byfor all and . Then converges weakly to an element , where . Additionally, if C is closed and convex, then converges weakly to an element .