Abstract
We, first, propose a new method for solving split common fixed point problems for demicontractive mappings in Hilbert spaces, and then establish the strong convergence of such an algorithm, which extends the Halpern type algorithm studied by Wang and Xu to a viscosity iteration. Above all, the step sizes in this algorithm are chosen without a priori knowledge of the operator norms.
Keywords:
split common fixed-point problem; strong convergence; demicontractive mapping; viscosity method MSC:
47H05; 47H09; 47H20
1. Introduction
In recent years, the split common fixed point problem (SCFPP) has attracted more and more attention [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] due to its applications in many areas, such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy, image reconstruction, signal processing, modeling inverse problems, and electron microscopy. The SCFPP is defined as finding a point in one fixed point set, and its image is in another fixed point set under a linear transformation. Specifically, assume that and are two Hilbert spaces and an operator is bounded and linear. The SCFPP is to find
where the mappings and are nonlinear, and and stand for the sets of all fixed points of T and U, respectively. Especially, if U and T are both orthogonal projections, the SCFPP (1) becomes the split feasibility problem (SFP) [8], which can be formulated as:
where the sets and are nonempty closed and convex, and A is as (1).
The SCFPP (1) was firstly studied by Censor and Segal [1]. Noting that p is a solution to the SCFPP (1) if the fixed-point equation below holds
To solve the SCFPP (1), Censor and Segal [1] introduced the following iterative scheme. For any initial point , define recursively by
where U and T are directed operators, ; they show that the sequence generated by (3) is weakly convergent to a solution of (1). Subsequently, this result was extended to the cases of quasi-nonexpansive mappings [3] and demicontractive operators [9], but the sequence is still weakly convergent to a point of the SCFPP (1).
Though the difficulty occurs when one implements the algorithm (3) because its step size is linked with the computation of the operator norm , alternative ways of constructing variable step sizes have been considered to surmount the difficulty (see the works by the authors of [5,6,10]). Of these step sizes, Wang and Xu [10] suggested the following one,
where is a sequence of real numbers satisfying
and they introduced the following iterative Algorithm 1.
Algorithm 1.
Step 1. Choose an anchor, , and initial guess, , arbitrarily.
Step 3. Update via the iteration formula:
where the step size is chosen as
with satisfying (4), and return to Step 2.
Under suitable conditions they obtained a strong convergence result for Algorithm 1.
In addition, following the idea of Attouch [11], in Hilbert spaces, Moudafi [12], first, proposed a viscosity approximation iteration for nonexpansive mappings.
Inspired by the above works, we naturally raise the following question. Can we carry the strong convergence of the SCFPP (1) (Algorithm 1) for nonexpansive mappings due to Wang and Xu [10] over the one of “a viscosity method” for more general “demicontractive mappings”? In this work, we shall give a positive answer for the question.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, assume that is a real Hilbert space and denotes the set of all real numbers. and , denote the strong (weak) convergence of . Let be a mapping. The set of all fixed points of S is denote by .
Definition 1.
is denoted as
- (i)
- contractive if there exists such that
- (ii)
- nonexpansive if
- (iii)
- quasi-nonexpansive if and
- (iv)
- firmly nonexpansive if
- (v)
- directed if and
- (vi)
- τ-demicontractive if and there exists , such thatwhich can also be written as
Obviously, if S is a quasi-nonexpansive mapping or a directed mapping, then S is demicontractive.
Remark 1.
Note that every 0-demicontractive mapping is quasi-nonexpansive. If , it is also said to be quasi-strictly pseudo-contractive [13]. Moreover, if , every τ-demicontractive mapping is quasi-nonexpansive. Thus, we only take in (vi) of Definition 1. However, from (v) of Definition 1, if , every directed operator is demicontractive.
Define an orthogonal projection as follows,
It is known that is firmly nonexpansive and has the following property [14,15].
The mapping is said to be demiclosed at 0, if for any and we obtain
In uniformly convex Banach spaces, Goebel and Kirk [16] presented a case of the demicloseness principle; especially, if is a Hilbert space, is nonempty, closed, and convex, and if is nonexpansive, then is demiclosed on C. Naturally, we want to know whether is still demiclosed on C if is quasi-nonexpansive. The following example shows that the conclusion is not true.
Example 1
(see Example 2.11 [17]). The mapping is defined by
Then S is quasi-nonexpansive, but is not demiclosed at 0.
Remark 2.
Note that there exist some demicontractive mappings which are demiclosed at 0, for instant, for , we take and ([17]; see Example 2.5). Then S is τ-demicontactive but not quasi-nonexpansive, where . However, is demiclosed at 0. In fact, assume that is any sequence in such that and , we can get .
Next, for making the convergence analysis of our algorithm, we give some lemmas as follows.
Lemma 1
([18]). Assume that is a sequence of non-negative real numbers, such that
where is a sequence in and is a sequence in , such that
- (i)
- (ii)
- (iii)
- or
Then
Lemma 2
([13]). Assume C is a closed convex subset of a Hilbert space . Let S be a self-mapping of C. If S is τ-demicontractive (which is also said to be τ-quasi-strict pseudo-contractive in the work by the authors of [13]), then is closed and convex.
Lemma 3
([19]). The demiclosedness principle of nonexpansive mappings. If is a nonexpansive mapping, then is demiclosed at 0.
3. Main Results
Unless other specified, we always assume that and are real Hilbert spaces. Let and be -demicontractive and -demicontractive, respectively. Let be a contraction with constant . Let an operator be bounded and linear, and be the adjoint of A.
Let denote the solution set of the SCFPP (1), i.e.,
Throughout this section, assume
Algorithm 2.
Step 1: Choose an initial guess arbitrarily.
Step 3: Update by the iteration formula
where the step size is chosen as
and return to Step 2.
The following lemma of Yao et al. [6] and the proof will be included for the sake of convenience.
Lemma 4.
p solves (1) if and only if
Proof.
If p solves (1), then and . Obviously
Conversely, if then for any we obtain
Then, by Equations (7)–(9), we get
Since , we deduce and by (10). Therefore, p solves the problem (1), completing the proof. □
Lemma 4 implies that Algorithm 2 generally generates an infinite sequence . Otherwise, the algorithm terminates in a finite number of iterations and a solution is found.
Lemma 5.
Suppose is a bounded sequence, such that
Then, and
Proof.
Set . For any we get
Since and , and is bounded, by Equation (5) we have
Therefore, by , we obtain and , completing the proof. □
Theorem 1.
Assume that the sequences , and the mappings U, T satisfy the following conditions.
- (a)
- and are demiclosed at 0.
- (b)
- .
- (c)
- and .
- (d)
Then, the sequence defined by Algorithm 2 converges strongly to a solution to the problem (1).
Proof.
Firstly, Lemma 2 yields that and are both closed convex sets. Since A is bounded and linear, is also closed convex. Therefore, is closed convex. Thus, is contractive. By Banach’s contraction principle there exists a unique element such that In particular, by Equation (6), we have
Secondly we show that is bounded.
From Algorithm 2, Equation (14), and we obtain
By induction, we can get
Hence, is bounded due to the condition . The condition implies that . So and are bounded by (12) and (14).
It follows from Algorithm 2 and (13) that
where . Set
Next we show that
It is obvious that is bounded from above, so is finite, and
Therefore, we can choose a subsequence in satisfying
Due to the boundedness of , there exists a weakly convergent subsequence, and we suppose that converges weakly to some point , such that
It follows from (16) and (17) and that
exists. Therefore, from condition , we have
that is,
which together with Lemma 5 implies that
Therefore, by the condition we have and , i.e., So from (11), (16), and (17) we get
Finally, we prove that is strongly convergent to
From the condition , applying Lemma 1 to Equation (15) we get , that is, the sequence converges strongly to , completing the proof. □
Remark 3.
Choose , The sequences and satisfy the conditions (b)–(d) in Theorem 1.
If U and T are nonexpansive with and , then U and T are demicontractive; by Lemma 3, the condition in Theorem 1 is satisfied. Hence, by Theorem 1, we get the result below.
Corollary 1.
Assume that U and T are two nonexpansive mappings and . "Assume that two control sequences and satisfy the conditions the conditions (b)–(d) in Theorem 1. Then, the sequence generated by Algorithm 2 converges strongly to a solution to the problem (1).
Author Contributions
All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Conceptualization, Y.W.; Validation, Y.W. and T.-H.K.; writing-original draft preparation, Y.W., X.F. and T.-H.K.; writing-review and editing, Y.W., X.F. and T.-H.K.
Funding
The work was supported by the Natural Science Fundation of China (No. 11975156, 11671365), and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LQ13A010007, LY14A010006).
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the referee for valuable suggestions to improve the manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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