Abstract
In this paper, we introduce and study a new system of general nonconvex variational inclusions involving four different nonlinear operators (SGNVI) and prove the equivalence between the SGNVI and a fixed point problem. By using this equivalent formulation, we establish the existence and uniqueness theorem for solution of the SGNVI. We use the foregoing equivalent alternative formulation and two nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mappings and to suggest and analyze some new two-step projection iterative algorithms for finding an element of the set of fixed points of the nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mapping , which is the unique solution of the SGNVI. Further, the convergence analysis of the suggested iterative algorithms under suitable conditions is studied.
MSC:47H05, 47J20, 49J40, 90C33.
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1 Introduction
The variational principle, the origin of which can be traced back to Fermat, Newton, Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, and Lagrange, has been one of the major branches of mathematical and engineering sciences for more than two centuries. It can be used to interpret the basic principles of mathematical and physical sciences in the form of simplicity and elegance. The variational principles have played a fundamental and important part as unifying influence in sciences and have played a fundamental role in the development of general theory of relativity, gauge field theory in modern particle physics, and solution theory. In recent years, these variational principles have been enriched by the discovery of the variational inequalities theory, which is mainly due to Stampacchia [1] in 1964. The variational inequalities theory constituted a significant and novel extension of the variational principles and describe a broad spectrum of interesting and fascinating developments involving a link among various fields of mathematics, physics, economics, equilibrium, financial, optimization, regional, and engineering sciences. In fact, it has been shown that the variational inequalities theory provides the most natural, direct, simple, unified, and efficient framework for a general treatment of a wide class of problems. Many research papers have been written lately, both on the theory and applications of this field. Important connections with main areas of pure and applied sciences have been made, see for example [2–4] and the references cited therein. The development of variational inequality theory can be viewed as the simultaneous pursuit of two different lines of research. On the one hand, it reveals the fundamental facts on the qualitative aspects of the solution to important classes of problems; on the other hand, it also enables us to develop highly efficient and powerful new numerical methods to solve, for example, obstacle, unilateral, free, moving and the complex equilibrium problems. One of the most interesting and important problems in variational inequality theory is the development of an efficient numerical method. There is a substantial number of numerical methods, including projection method and its variant forms, Wiener-Holf (normal) equations, auxiliary principle, and descent framework for solving variational inequalities and complementarity problems.
Projection method and its variant forms represent important tool for finding the approximate solution of various types of variational and quasi-variational inequalities, the origin of which can be traced back to Lions and Stampacchia [5]. The projection type methods were developed in 1970’s and 1980’s. The main idea in this technique is to establish the equivalence between the variational inequalities and the fixed point problems using the concept of projection. This alternative formulation enables us to suggest some iterative methods for computing the approximate solution.
Verma [6], Chang et al. [7] and Huang and Noor [8] introduced and studied systems of nonlinear variational inequalities, and by using the projection operator technique, they proposed some projection iterative algorithms for solving these systems of variational inequalities. They also studied the convergence analysis of the proposed iterative algorithms under some certain conditions.
It should be pointed out that almost all the results regarding the existence and iterative schemes for solving variational inequalities and related optimizations problems are being considered in the convexity setting. Consequently, all the techniques are based on the properties of the projection operator over convex sets, which may not hold in general, when the sets are nonconvex. It is known that the uniformly prox-regular sets are nonconvex and include the convex sets as special cases, for more details, see for example [9–12]. In recent years, Balooee et al. [13], Bounkhel et al. [9], Noor et al. [14], Pang et al. [15], Petrot [16] and Suwannawit et al. [17] have considered variational inequalities in the context of uniformly prox-regular sets.
On the other hand, related to the variational inequalities, we have the problem of finding the fixed points of nonexpansive mappings, which is the subject of current interest in functional analysis. It is natural to consider a unified approach to these two different problems. Motivated and inspired by the research going in this direction, Noor and Huang [18] considered the problem of finding a common element of the set of solutions of variational inequalities and the set of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings. It is well known that every nonexpansive mapping is a Lipschitzian mapping. Lipschitzian mappings have been generalized by various authors. Sahu [19] introduced and investigated nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mappings as a generalization of Lipschitzian mappings. In the recent past, some works in this direction for finding the solutions of the variational inequalities/inclusion problems and the fixed points of the nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mappings have been done, see, for example, [13, 20, 21].
Motivated and inspired by the above works, in the present paper, we first introduce and consider a new system of general nonconvex variational inclusions involving four different nonlinear operators (SGNVI). We prove the equivalence between the SGNVI and a fixed point problem, and then by this equivalent formulation, we discuss the existence and uniqueness of solution of the SGNVI. By using two nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mappings and and the aforesaid equivalent alternative formulation, we suggest and analyze some new projection two-step iterative algorithms for finding an element of the set of fixed points of the nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mapping , which is the unique solution of the SGNVI. The convergence analysis of the suggested iterative algorithms under suitable conditions is also studied.
2 Formulations and basic facts
Throughout this article, we let ℋ be a real Hilbert space, which is equipped with an inner product and the corresponding norm , and we let K be a nonempty and closed subset of ℋ. We denote by or the usual distance function to the subset K, i.e., . Let us recall the following well-known definitions and some auxiliary results of nonlinear convex analysis and nonsmooth analysis [10–12, 22].
Definition 2.1 Let be a point not lying in K. A point is called a closest point or a projection of u onto K if . The set of all such closest points is denoted by , i.e.,
Definition 2.2 The proximal normal cone of K at a point is given by
Clarke et al. [10], in Proposition 1.1.5, give a characterization of as follows.
Lemma 2.1 Let K be a nonempty closed subset in ℋ. Then if and only if there exists a constant such that for all .
The above inequality is called the proximal normal inequality. The special case in which K is closed and convex is an important one. In Proposition 1.1.10 of [10], the authors give the following characterization of the proximal normal cone for the closed and convex subset .
Lemma 2.2 Let K be a nonempty, closed and convex subset in ℋ. Then if and only if for all .
Definition 2.3 Let X be a real Banach space, and let be the Lipschitz with constant τ near a given point , that is, for some , we have for all , where denotes the open ball of radius and centered at x. The generalized directional derivative of f at x in the direction v, denoted as , is defined as follows.
where y is a vector in X and t is a positive scalar.
The generalized directional derivative defined earlier can be used to develop a notion of tangency that does not require K to be smooth or convex.
Definition 2.4 The tangent cone to K at a point x in K is defined as follows:
Having defined a tangent cone, the likely candidate for the normal cone is the one obtained from by polarity. Accordingly, we define the normal cone of K at x by polarity with as follows:
The Clarke normal cone, denoted by , is defined by , where denotes the closure of the convex hull of S.
Clearly, . Note that is a closed and convex cone, whereas is convex, but may not be closed. For further details on this topic, we refer to [10, 12, 22] and the references therein.
In 1995, Clarke et al. [11] introduced and studied a new class of nonconvex sets, called proximally smooth sets; subsequently, Poliquin et al. in [12], investigated the aforementioned set under the name of uniformly prox-regular sets. These have been successfully used in many nonconvex applications in areas such as optimizations, economic models, dynamical systems, differential inclusions, etc. For such applications, see [23–26]. This class seems particularly well suited to overcome the difficulties, which arise due to the nonconvexity assumptions on K. We take the following characterization, proved in [11], as a definition of this class. We point out that the original definition was given in terms of the differentiability of the distance function, see [11].
Definition 2.5 For any , a subset of ℋ is called normalized uniformly prox-regular (or uniformly r-prox-regular [11]) if every nonzero proximal normal to can be realized by an r-ball. This means that for all and all ,
Obviously, the class of normalized uniformly prox-regular sets is sufficiently large to include the class of convex sets, p-convex sets, submanifolds (possibly with a boundary) of ℋ, the images under a diffeomorphism of convex sets and many other nonconvex sets, see [11, 27].
Lemma 2.3 [11]
A closed set is convex if and only if it is proximally smooth of radius r for every .
If , then, in view of Definition 2.5 and Lemma 2.3, the uniform r-prox-regularity of is equivalent to the convexity of , which makes this class of great importance. For the case of that , we set .
The following proposition summarizes some important consequences of the uniform prox-regularity needed in the sequel.
Let , and let be a nonempty closed and uniformly r-prox-regular subset of ℋ. Let . Then the following assertions hold
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For all , ;
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For all , is Lipschitz continuous with constant on ;
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The proximal normal cone is closed as a set-valued mapping.
As a direct consequent of part (c) of Proposition 2.4, for any uniformly r-prox-regular subset of ℋ, we have . Therefore, we define for such a class of sets.
In order to make clear the concept of r-prox-regular sets, we state the following concrete example. The union of two disjoint intervals and is r-prox-regular with , see [9, 10, 12]. The finite union of disjoint intervals is also r-prox-regular, and r depends on the distances between the intervals.
3 System of general nonconvex variational inclusions
This section is concerned with the introduction of a new system of nonconvex variational inclusions and establishing of the existence and uniqueness theorem for solution of the aforesaid system.
Let be a uniformly r-prox-regular subset of ℋ, and let and (), be four nonlinear single-valued operators. For any given constants , we consider the problem of finding such that
which is called a system of general nonconvex variational inclusions involving four different nonlinear operators (SGNVI).
If for each , , is a univariate nonlinear operator and , the identity operator, then system (3.1) collapses to the system of finding such that
which was considered and studied by Moudafi [28] and Petrot [16].
If , i.e., , the convex set in ℋ, and for each , , then it follows from Lemma 2.2 that is a solution of system (3.1) if and only if
Problem (3.3) is called a system of general nonlinear variational inequalities in the sense of convex analysis.
If and for each , , then system (3.3) collapses to the system of finding such that
which was introduced and studied by Huang and Noor [8].
Some special cases of system (3.4) are introduced and studied by Chang et al. [7], Verma [6, 29, 30] and Stampacchia [1].
Now, we establish the existence and uniqueness of solution for SGNVI (3.1). For this end, we need the following lemma, in which the equivalence between SGNVI (3.1) and a fixed point problem is proved.
Lemma 3.1 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in SGNVI (3.1) such that for each , . Then is a solution of system (3.1) if and only if
provided that and , for some , where is the projection of ℋ onto .
Proof Let be a solution of SGNVI (3.1). Since , and , for some , it is easy to check that the two points and belong to . Therefore, the r-prox regularity of implies that the two sets and are nonempty and singleton, that is, equations (3.5) are well defined. Then, we have
where I is the identity operator, and we have used the well-known fact that . □
Definition 3.1 A single-valued operator is called
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(a)
monotone if
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r-strongly monotone if there exists a constant such that
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γ-Lipschitz continuous if there exists a constant such that
Theorem 3.2 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in system (3.1) such that for each , . Suppose further that for each , the operator is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous in the first variable, is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous. If the constants satisfy the following conditions:
for some and for all , and
then SGNVI (3.1) admits a unique solution.
Proof Define by
for all . Since , it follows from condition (3.6) that the mappings Ψ and Φ are well defined. Define on by
It is clear that is a Banach space. Also, define as below:
We show that the mapping F is contraction. Let be given. Applying Proposition 2.4, we have
From -strongly monotonicity and -Lipschitz continuity of , it follows that
Since is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous in the first variable, we get
Substituting (3.11) and (3.12) in (3.10), we obtain
Like in the proofs of (3.10)-(3.13), one can obtain
Applying (3.13) and (3.14), we have
where
It follows from (3.9) and (3.15) that
where . Condition (3.7) implies that , and so, (3.16) guarantees that the mapping F is contraction. According to the Banach fixed point theorem, there exists a unique point such that . It follows from (3.8) and (3.9) that and . Now, from Lemma 3.1, it follows that is a unique solution of SGNVI (3.1), and this completes the proof. □
Theorem 3.3 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in system (3.3) such that for each , the operator is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous in the first variable, is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous. If the constants satisfy the following conditions:
then system (3.3) admits a unique solution.
4 Iterative algorithms and convergence analysis
We need to recall that a nonlinear mapping is called nonexpansive if for all . In recent years, nonexpansive mappings have been generalized and investigated by various authors. One of these generalizations is the class of nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mappings. In this section, we first recall several generalizations of nonexpansive mappings, which have been introduced in recent years. Then, we use two nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mappings and and the equivalent alternative formulation (3.5) to suggest and analyze some new two-step projection iterative algorithms for finding an element of the set of fixed points , which is the unique solution of SGNVI (3.1). In the next definitions, several generalizations of nonexpansive mappings are stated.
Definition 4.1 A nonlinear mapping is called
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(a)
L-Lipschitzian if there exists a constant such that
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(b)
generalized Lipschitzian if there exists a constant such that
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(c)
generalized -Lipschitzian [19] if there exist two constants such that
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asymptotically nonexpansive [31] if there exists a sequence with such that for each ,
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pointwise asymptotically nonexpansive [32] if, for each integer ,
where pointwise on X;
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uniformly L-Lipschitzian if there exists a constant such that for each ,
Definition 4.2 [19]
A nonlinear mapping is said to be
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(a)
nearly Lipschitzian with respect to the sequence if for each , there exists a constant such that
(4.1)
where is a fix sequence in with , as .
For an arbitrary, but fixed , the infimum of constants in (4.1) is called nearly Lipschitz constant and is denoted by . Notice that
A nearly Lipschitzian mapping T with the sequence is said to be
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(b)
nearly nonexpansive if for all , that is,
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(c)
nearly asymptotically nonexpansive if for all and , in other words, for all with ;
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nearly uniformly L-Lipschitzian if for all , in other words, for all .
Remark 4.1 It should be pointed out that
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(a)
Every nonexpansive mapping is an asymptotically nonexpansive mapping, and every asymptotically nonexpansive mapping is a pointwise asymptotically nonexpansive mapping. Also, the class of Lipschitzian mappings properly includes the class of pointwise asymptotically nonexpansive mappings.
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(b)
It is obvious that every Lipschitzian mapping is a generalized Lipschitzian mapping. Furthermore, every mapping with a bounded range is a generalized Lipschitzian mapping. It is easy to see that the class of generalized -Lipschitzian mappings is more general than the class of generalized Lipschitzian mappings.
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Clearly, the class of nearly uniformly L-Lipschitzian mappings properly includes the class of generalized -Lipschitzian mappings and that of uniformly L-Lipschitzian mappings. Note that every nearly asymptotically nonexpansive mapping is nearly uniformly L-Lipschitzian.
Some interesting examples to investigate relations between these mappings, introduced in Definitions 4.1 and 4.2, can be found in [13].
Let be a nearly uniformly -Lipschitzian mapping with the sequence , and let be a nearly uniformly -Lipschitzian mapping with the sequence . We define the self-mapping of as follows:
Then is a nearly uniformly -Lipschitzian mapping with the sequence with respect to the norm in . Because, for any and , we have
We denote the sets of all fixed points of () and by and , respectively, and the set of all solutions of system (3.1) by . In view of (4.2), for any , if and only if and , that is, . We now characterize the problem. Let the operators , (), and the constants ρ, η be the same as in system (3.1). If , and , for some , then by using Lemma 3.1, it is easy to see that for each ,
The fixed point formulation (4.3) enables us to suggest the following iterative algorithm for finding an element of the set of fixed points of the nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mapping , which is the unique solution of SGNVI (3.1).
Algorithm 4.2 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in SGNVI (3.1), and let the constants ρ, η satisfy condition (3.6). For an arbitrary chosen initial point , compute the iterative sequence in in the following way:
where are two nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mappings, and is a sequence in the interval such that .
If for each , , then Algorithm 4.2 reduces to the following algorithm.
Algorithm 4.3 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in SGNVI (3.1), and let the constants ρ, η satisfy condition (3.6). For an arbitrary chosen initial point , compute the iterative sequence in in the following way:
where the sequence is the same as in Algorithm 4.2.
Now, we discuss the convergence analysis of iterative sequence generated by the projection iterative Algorithm 4.2. We need the following lemma for verifying our main results.
Lemma 4.4 [33]
Let be a nonnegative real sequence, and let be a real sequence in such that . If there exists a positive integer such that
where for all and , then .
Theorem 4.5 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in Theorem 3.2. Assume that all the conditions of Theorem 3.2 hold and the constants ρ, η satisfy condition (3.6). Suppose that is a nearly uniformly -Lipschitzian mapping with the sequence , is a nearly uniformly -Lipschitzian mapping with the sequence , and is a self-mapping of , defined by (4.2) such that . Further, let for each , , where ϑ is the same as in (3.16). Then the iterative sequence generated by Algorithm 4.2, converges strongly to the only element of .
Proof In view of Theorem 3.2, SGNVI (3.1) has a unique solution . Since and , for some , it follows from Lemma 3.1 that satisfies equations (3.5). Since is a singleton set and , we deduce that and . Hence, for each , we can write
where the sequence is the same as in Algorithm 4.2. Since , and , for some and for all , we can easily check that the points and (), belong to . By using (4.4), (4.5) and Proposition 2.4, we have
Since is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous in the first variable, is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous, in a similar way to the proofs of (3.11) and (3.12), we can get
By combining (4.6) and (4.7), we obtain
where ψ is the same as in (3.15). Like in the proofs of (4.6)-(4.8), one can prove that
where φ is the same as in (3.15). Letting , it follows from (4.8) and (4.9) that
where ϑ is the same as in (3.16). Since , and , we note that all the conditions of Lemma 4.4 are satisfied, and so, Lemma 4.4 and (4.10) imply that as . Hence, the sequence , generated by Algorithm 4.2, converges strongly to the unique solution of SGNVI (3.1), that is, the only element of . This completes the proof. □
Theorem 4.6 Suppose that , (), ρ and η are the same as in Theorem 3.2, and let all the conditions of Theorem 3.2 hold. Then the iterative sequence , generated by Algorithm 4.3, converges strongly to the unique solution of SGNVI (3.1).
Remark 4.7 Equality (4.3) can be written as follows:
where .
The fixed point formulation (4.11) enables us to suggest the following iterative algorithm for finding an element of the set of fixed points of the nearly uniformly Lipschitzian mapping , which is the unique solution of SGNVI (3.1).
Algorithm 4.8 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in SGNVI (3.1). Suppose further that the constants ρ and η satisfy condition (3.6) for some . For a given , compute the iterative sequence in in the following way:
where () and are the same as in Algorithm 4.2.
If for each , , then Algorithm 4.8 reduces to the following algorithm.
Algorithm 4.9 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in SGNVI (3.1). Assume further that the constants ρ and η satisfy condition (3.6) for some . For an arbitrary chosen initial point , compute the iterative sequence in in the following way:
where the sequence is the same as in Algorithm 4.2.
Theorem 4.10 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in Theorem 3.2, and let all the conditions of Theorem 3.2 hold. Assume that () and are the same as in Theorem 4.5 such that . Further, let for , where ϑ is the same as in (3.16). Then the iterative sequence generated by Algorithm 4.8, converges strongly to the only element of .
Proof In view of Theorem 3.2, SGNVI (3.1) admits a unique solution . It follows from Lemma 3.1 that and . Since is a singleton set and , we deduce that and . Accordingly, in view of Remark 4.7, for each , we can write
From (4.12), (4.13) and the assumptions, it follows that
Since is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous, and is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitz continuous in the first variable, similar to the proofs of (3.11) and (3.12), one can prove that
and
By combining (4.14)-(4.16), we get
By using (4.12), (4.13) and Proposition 2.4, we have
Substituting (4.18) in (4.17), we get
where ψ is the same as in (3.15). Like in the proofs of (4.14)-(4.19), one can establish that
where φ is the same as in (3.15). Let . Then, applying (4.19) and (4.20), we obtain
where ϑ is the same as in (3.16). Since and , it follows that the right side of the above inequality tends to zero, as and so , as . By using (4.12), (4.13) and Proposition 2.4, we have
Since , and , from inequalities (4.18) and (4.22), it follows that , , as . Hence, the sequence , generated by Algorithm 4.8, converges strongly to the unique solution of system (3.1), that is, the only element of . This completes the proof. □
Theorem 4.11 Let , (), ρ and η be the same as in Theorem 3.2, and let all the conditions of Theorem 3.2 hold. Then the iterative sequence , generated by Algorithm 4.9, converges strongly to the unique solution of SGNVI (3.1).
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Petrot, N., Balooee, J. General nonconvex variational inclusions and fixed point problems. J Inequal Appl 2013, 377 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2013-377
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