Remarks on Asymptotic Centers and Fixed Points

We introduce a class of nonlinear continuous mappings defined on a bounded closed convex subset of a Banach spaceX. We characterize the Banach spaces in which every asymptotic center of each bounded sequence in any weakly compact convex subset is compact as those spaces having the weak fixed point property for this type of mappings.

Minimal convergence on Lp spaces

Let (X, F, μ) be a probability measure space, p and β real numbers such that 1≤p<+∞ and 0<β<p. For any linear positive operator T satisfying T1, T*1 = 1 we prove the norm and pointwise convergence of the sequence We get then the pointwise and norm convergence in Lp, 0 < β ≥ 1 < p < 2, of the sequence sgn Sif for any positive linear operator on Lp(Ω, A, μ) (μ-σ-finite) verifying ∥(1 − α)I + αS∥p ≤ 1 for a real number 0 < α < 1. In the particular case α = 1, (S is a contraction), β = p−l, this result gives the pointwise and norm convergence of the sequences introduced by Beauzamy and Enflo in 1985 to the asymptotic center of the sequence .

Fixed Point Theorems for Proximately Nonexpansive Semigroups

A commutative semigroup G of continuous, selfmappings on (X, d) is called proximately nonexpansive on X if for every x in X and every (β > 0, there is a member g in G such that d(fg(x),fg(y)) ≤ (1 + β) d (x, y) for every f in G and y in X. For a uniformly convex Banach space it is shown that if G is a commutative semigroup of continuous selfmappings on X which is proximately nonexpansive, then a common fixed point exists if there is an x0 in X such that its orbit G(x0) is bounded. Furthermore, the asymptotic center of G(x0) is such a common fixed point.

Some remarks on the location of fixed points

Several procedures for locating fixed points of nonexpansive selfmaps of a weakly compact convex subset of a Banach space are presented. Some of the results involve the notion of an asymptotic center or a Chebyshev center.