Abstract
This paper examines -accretive mappings in Banach spaces and proves that the resolvent operator related to these mappings is Lipschitz continuous. Using the resolvent operator technique, we formulate iterative algorithms to solve a class of variational inclusions in Banach spaces. We also concentrate on examining the convergence of the problem by employing the inertial extrapolation scheme and proving the convergence of the iterative scheme produced by the algorithm. The theoretical analysis is corroborated with a numerical result, which highlights the effectiveness and practical relevance of the proposed approaches.
MSC:
47H05; 49H10; 47J25
1. Introduction
The theory of variational inequalities has undergone extensive development and generalization, largely due to its wide-ranging applications in mechanics, physics, optimization, economics, and engineering. A significant extension of this theory is the concept of variational inclusion, originally introduced by Hassouni and Moudafi [1]. Over the years, various approaches have been suggested to address variational inclusion problems, with the resolvent operator technique emerging as one of the most prominent and effective tools.
The idea of generalized m-accretive mappings, together with the formulation of the resolvent operator for such mappings in Banach spaces, was first explored by Huang and Fang [2]. They further investigated several properties of the resolvent operator associated with generalized -accretive mappings in Banach spaces (see also [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] for related contributions).
Noor [10,11] later introduced resolvent equations, which generalize Wiener–Hopf-type equations. Several researchers have shown the equivalence between variational inclusion problems and resolvent equations, thereby reinforcing the importance of the resolvent operator method. Unlike projection methods, which may fail in some cases, the resolvent approach has proven to be highly effective in tackling inclusion problems. In fact, many generalized forms of resolvent operators involving multiple monotone operators have been developed in the literature.
Several iterative schemes based on generalized resolvent operators have been developed in the literature. To enhance computational performance, methods that achieve faster convergence are particularly desirable. One effective acceleration strategy involves the use of inertial extrapolation, in which an extrapolation term , governed by a scalar parameter v is incorporated to speed up the convergence process. The idea of inertial-type iterations was originally introduced by Polyak [12] through the well-known heavy-ball method. Such two-step inertial algorithms utilize information from the two most recent iterates to produce the next approximation, thereby improving both stability and convergence rate (see, e.g., [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]). More recently, Rajpoot et al. [22,23] studied the Yosida resolvent equation related to Yosida variational inclusions. They examined the existence of solutions and the convergence of iterative algorithms based on the Yosida resolvent operator, which further extended some earlier results on variational inclusion problems.
Building upon these advancements, the present study focuses on the investigation of the Lipschitz continuity of the resolvent operator corresponding to -accretive mappings under appropriate conditions. Within this theoretical framework, an iterative algorithm was developed to address a class of variational inclusion problems in Banach spaces. The existence of solutions is ensured under sufficient assumptions, and the convergence analysis of the proposed inertial-type scheme is rigorously established. In addition, a numerical experiment implemented in MATLAB R2024a is presented to illustrate the validity of the theoretical findings through convergence graphs and tabulated results. Furthermore, the efficiency and stability of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated through a comparative study with the Mann-type and Ishikawa-type algorithms.
This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 presents the Introduction and outlines the motivation, background, and related work in the field. Section 2 provides preliminaries, including the basic definitions, lemmas, and mathematical tools used throughout the paper. Section 3 introduces the concept of -accretive operators and discusses their fundamental properties. Section 4 formulates the generalized variational inclusion problem within the Banach space framework. Section 5 is devoted to the fixed-point formulation and iterative algorithm, where the proposed inertial-type scheme is constructed. Section 6 presents the Convergence Analysis of the proposed algorithm under suitable assumptions. Section 7 provides the Numerical Results and a comparative study with existing methods, followed by the Conclusion, which summarizes the main contributions and highlights possible directions for future research.
2. Basic Concepts
Let be a real Banach space, with its dual denoted by . The duality pairing between elements of and is represented by . We write for the collection of all nonempty subsets of . The generalized duality mapping is defined by
where . For , becomes the normalized duality mapping. More generally, for any , one can write . If the dual space is strictly convex, then the operator is single-valued. In this work, we assume that is a real Banach space. The mapping is single-valued if is uniformly smooth (see [24]). The modulus of smoothness of is introduced through the function defined by
A Banach space is said to be uniformly smooth whenever
Furthermore, is called p-uniformly smooth if there exists a constant such that
In a uniformly smooth Banach space, the duality mapping is single-valued. The following result, proved by Xu [25], deals with characteristic inequalities in p-uniformly smooth Banach spaces.
Lemma 1
([25]). Let be a uniformly smooth Banach space. Then, is p-uniformly smooth if and only if there exists a constant such that, for all ,
For completeness, we now recall some standard notions in the case where is a Hilbert space.
Definition 1.
Let be a single-valued mapping. Then,
- (i)
- A is monotone if
- (ii)
- A is strongly monotone if there exists such that
Definition 2.
A set-valued operator is said to be monotone if
Definition 3.
Let be a mapping. A set-valued operator is called -monotone if Δ is monotone and
The following extends Definitions 1–3 to the framework of p-uniformly smooth Banach spaces.
Definition 4
([24]). Let and be single-valued mappings. Then,
- (i)
- f is accretive if
- (ii)
- f is strictly accretive if f is accretive and
- (iii)
- is called α-strongly accretive with respect to f if there exists such that
- (iv)
- g is τ-Lipschitz continuous if there exists such that
- (v)
- is μ-co-coercive with respect to f if there exists such that
- (vi)
- is β-relaxed co-coercive with respect to g if there exists such that
- (vii)
- is called mixed Lipschitz continuous with respect to f and g if there exists such that
- (viii)
- is called mixed Lipschitz continuous with respect to u and v if there exists such that
- (ix)
- A set-valued operator is called accretive if
Lemma 2
([22]). Let be a sequence of nonnegative real numbers satisfying
where
- (i)
- with ;
- (ii)
- ;
- (iii)
- and .
Then, .
3. -Accretive Operator
This section introduces the concept of an -accretive operator and highlights some of its essential properties.
Definition 5
([24]). Let and be single-valued mappings. Let be a set-valued operator. Then, Δ is called -accretive with respect to f and g (or simply -accretive) if the following hold:
- (i)
- Δ is accretive;
- (ii)
- For each ,
Theorem 1.
Assume that is α-strongly accretive with respect to f and β-relaxed co-coercive with respect to g, where g is τ-Lipschitz continuous. If and Δ is an -accretive operator with respect to f and g, then the mapping
is single-valued for every .
Proof.
Take any and let . Then,
Since is accretive, we obtain
Applying the -strong accretivity of with respect to f and its -relaxed co-coercivity with respect to g, we deduce
As g is -Lipschitz continuous, this becomes
Since and , the above inequality yields . Thus, is single-valued. □
Definition 6.
Let be α-strongly accretive with respect to f and β-relaxed co-coercive with respect to g, and let g be τ-Lipschitz continuous, with . If Δ is an -accretive operator with respect to f and g, the resolvent operator is defined as
The next theorem shows that this resolvent operator shares properties similar to those studied in [6].
Theorem 2.
Suppose is α-strongly accretive with respect to f and β-relaxed co-coercive with respect to g and g is τ-Lipschitz continuous. If , then the resolvent operator
is -Lipschitz continuous. Specifically, for any ,
4. Generalized Variational Inclusion Problem
In this section, we demonstrate that, under suitable assumptions, the generalized -accretive operator introduced earlier can be effectively applied to solve variational inclusion problems in Banach spaces. Let denote a p-uniformly smooth Banach space. Consider single-valued mappings and , together with a set-valued operator . We study the following generalized variational inclusion problem: find such that
When and h is the identity mapping, problem (3) reduces to the simpler task of finding such that
The formulation in (4) represents a standard inclusion problem that forms the basis for a wide range of practical applications in the applied sciences.
5. Fixed-Point Formulation and Iterative Algorithm
The next lemma establishes a fixed-point characterization of problem (3), utilizing the resolvent operator introduced in Definition 6.
Lemma 3.
The generalized variational inclusion problem (3) admits a solution if and only if
Proof.
6. Convergence Analysis
In this section, we study the convergence of the proposed scheme for the generalized variational inclusion problem in a real Banach space.
| Algorithm 1: Inertial Extrapolation Method |
| Step 1 (Initialisation): For an initial point , and , where is the extrapolation parameter, and is a fixed constant. |
| Step 2: Given compute as follows: |
| Step 3: Compute as follows: |
Theorem 3.
Let be a p-uniformly smooth Banach space. Let and be single-valued mappings such that is α strongly accretive with respect to f and β-relaxed co-coercive with respect to g, where g is τ-Lipschitz continuous. Also, assume that , , and Ψ are mixed Lipschitz continuous with respect to mappings and with constant and , respectively. Let be an -accretive set-valued operator. Suppose that is a resolvent operator such that is -Lipschitz continuous, where . Suppose that the following conditions are satisfied:
where
Let for all such that
where all constants are positive, and is an extrapolating term Then, the sequence generated by Algorithm 1 strongly converges to the unique solution of generalized variational inclusion problem (3).
Proof.
Let be the solution of generalized variational inclusion problem (3). Then, by the algorithm, we get
where for all
Using iterative sequence and (9), we find that
Applying the -Lipschitz continuity of resolvent operator , where , we get
Using the mixed Lipschitz continuity of and with respect to and , respectively, we obtain
From Algorithm 1, we have
Thus, we have
or
where
letting from condition (7). By condition (8), we have
Setting and , it follows from Lemma 2 and Equation (12) that as . Therefore, the iterative Algorithm 1 strongly converges to the unique element solving the generalized variational inclusion problem (3). Furthermore, we establish the uniqueness of the solution to the problem (3). Let be two distinct solutions of the generalized variational inclusion problem (3). Then, by Lemma 3, we have
and
It follows that
Using the Lipschitz continuity of the resolvent operator ,
Using the mixed Lipschitz continuity of and with respect to and , respectively, we obtain
where From condition (7), we obtain . Hence, in applying (13), the generalized variational inclusion problem (3) admits a unique solution . □
When in Algorithm 1, we obtain the following algorithm and its convergence result.
| Algorithm 2: Inertial Extrapolation Method with |
| Step 1 (Initialisation): For an initial point , and , where is the extrapolation parameter, and is a fixed constant. |
| Step 2: Given compute as follows: |
| Step 3: Compute as follows: |
Corollary 1.
Suppose that all the assumptions of Theorem 1 hold. Then, the sequence generated by Algorithm 2 strongly converges to the unique solution of the generalized variational inclusion problem (3).
When in Algorithm 1, we obtain the following algorithm and its convergence result:
| Algorithm 3: Without Inertial Parameter |
| Step 1 (Initialisation): For an initial point , and , and is a fixed constant. |
| Step 2: Compute as follows: |
7. Numerical Results
To verify Theorem 3, we provide a numerical illustration implemented in MATLAB R2024a. The example includes a step-by-step computation table and a convergence plot to illustrate the results.
Example 1.
Consider with the standard inner product and norm, and let . Let and be single-valued mappings and let be a set-valued operator. Suppose
and
Then,
- (i)
- is α-strongly accretive with respect to f. Computation yieldsso is -strongly accretive with respect to f.
- (ii)
- is β-relaxed co-coercive with respect to g:Hence, is -relaxed co-coercive with respect to g.
- (iii)
- is -mixed Lipschitz continuous with respect to f and g:
- (iv)
- is -mixed Lipschitz continuous with respect to u and v, with
- (v)
- g is 2-Lipschitz continuous:
- (vi)
- Δ is -accretive. LetThen,and
- (vii)
- From the above, the constants are
- (viii)
- For , the resolvent operator iswhich is -Lipschitz continuous.
- (ix)
- (x)
- By choosing and , the inertial iterative Algorithm 1 becomes
Table 1 and Figure 1 shows that the convergence behavior of sequence converges to for the initial values ; ; and . The generalized variational inclusion problem (3) has the solution given by the limit Next, we analyze the performance of Algorithm 1 for this example and compare it with Algorithms 4.1 and 4.2 from [26]. All computations and the convergence graph were produced using MATLAB_R2024a. In the MATLAB implementation, the computational complexity was evaluated based on two stopping criteria: either when the sequence satisfies the condition , indicating convergence, or when the maximum number of iterations reaches 20. The corresponding numerical results are presented in Figure 1.
Table 1.
Results of the computations with different initial values −4.
Figure 1.
Convergence of sequence with different starting points represented graphically.
The numerical experiments were conducted on a MacBook Air equipped with an Apple M1 chip (8-core CPU) running macOS Sequoia 15.6.1. The comparison behaviour of Algorithm 1 is shown in Table 2, Figure 2 and Figure 3. We observe that Algorithm 1 is faster than Algorithms 4.1 and 4.2 in [26].
Table 2.
Comparison rate analysis of Algorithm 1 with Algorithms 4.1 and 4.2 in [26] with initial value
Figure 2.
Comparison of Algorithm 1 and Ishikawa-type Algorithm 4.1 in [26] with initial point
Figure 3.
Comparison of Algorithm 1 and Mann-type Algorithm 4.2 in [26] with initial point
By setting and , new algorithmic variants were developed. Four comparative graphs Figure 4 and Figure 5 were then plotted to evaluate their convergence behavior with respect to the proposed Algorithm 1, Ishikawa-type Algorithm 4.1 and Mann-type Algorithm 4.2 in [26].
Figure 4.
(a) Comparison of Algorithm 1, Algorithm 2, and Ishikawa-type Algorithm 4.1 in [26]; (b) comparison of Algorithm 1, Algorithm 3, and Ishikawa-type Algorithm 4.1 in [26].
Figure 5.
(a) Comparison of Algorithm 1, Algorithm 2, and Mann-type Algorithm 4.2 in [26]; (b) comparison of Algorithm 1, Algorithm 3, and Mann-type Algorithm 4.2 in [26].
8. Conclusions
In this paper, we investigated the concept of -accretive mappings in Banach spaces and proposed iterative algorithms based on the resolvent operator technique for solving a specific class of variational inclusions. The convergence of the algorithm was established using an inertial extrapolation scheme, confirming that the iterative sequence generated by the algorithm converges reliably and efficiently to the solution.
The results obtained are also applicable to higher-dimensional Banach spaces, making them relevant for engineers, physicists, and other practitioners in a variety of applied contexts. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed scheme was validated through numerical result, demonstrating its practical effectiveness.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: M.A.A. and I.A.; methodology: M.A.A. and I.A.; software: S.S.I. and I.A.; validation: S.S.I. and I.A.; formal analysis: M.A.A. and I.A.; writing—original draft preparation: M.A.A. and S.S.I.; writing—review and editing: M.A.A. and S.S.I.; funding: I.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
The Researchers would like to thank the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Qassim University for financial support (QU-APC-2025).
Data Availability Statement
The original contributions presented in this study are included in the article. Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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