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Volume 2009, Article ID 786357,12pages doi:10.1155/2009/786357

Research Article

Fixed Points of Multivalued Maps in

Modular Function Spaces

Marwan A. Kutbi and Abdul Latif

Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, P. O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Correspondence should be addressed to Abdul Latif,[email protected]

Received 7 February 2009; Accepted 14 April 2009

Recommended by Jerzy Jezierski

The purpose of this paper is to study the existence of fixed points for contractive-type and nonexpansive-type multivalued maps in the setting of modular function spaces. We also discuss the concept ofw-modular function and prove fixed point results forweakly-modular contractive maps in modular function spaces. These results extend several similar results proved in metric and Banach spaces settings.

Copyrightq2009 M. A. Kutbi and A. Latif. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

1. Introduction and Preliminaries

The well-known Banach fixed point theorem on complete metric spaces specifically, each contraction self-map of a complete metric space has a unique fixed pointhas been extended and generalized in different directions. For example, see Edelstein 1, 2, Kasahara 3, Rhoades4, Siddiq and Ansari5, and others. One of its generalizations is for nonexpansive single-valued maps on certain subsets of a Banach space. Indeed, these fixed points are not necessarily unique. See, for example, Browder 6–8 and Kirk 9. Fixed point theorems for contractive and nonexpansive multivalued maps have also been established by several authors. LetHdenote the Hausdorffmetric on the space of all bounded nonempty subsets of a metric spaceX, d. A multivalued mapJ:X → 2Xwhere 2Xdenotes the collection of all

nonempty subsets ofXwith bounded subsets as values is called contractive10if

HJx, Jyhdx, y 1.1

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metric and Banach spaces. Note that an elementxXis called a fixed point of a multivalued mapJ : X → 2X ifx Jx. Among others, without using the concept of the Hausdor

metric, Husain and Tarafdar13introduced the notion of a nonexpansive-type multivalued map and proved a fixed point theorem on compact intervals of the real line. Using such type of notions Husain and Latif14extended their result to general Banach space setting.

The fixed point results in modular function spaces were given by Khamsi et al.15. Even though a metric is not defined, many problems in metric fixed point theory can be reformulated in modular spaces. For instance, fixed point theorems are proved in15,16for nonexpansive maps.

In this paper, we define nonexpansive-type and contractive-type multivalued maps in modular function spaces, investigate the existence of fixed points of such mappings, and prove similar results found in17.

Now, we recall some basic notions and facts about modular spaces as formulated by Kozlowski18. For more details the reader may consult15,16.

LetΩbe a nonempty set and letΣbe a nontrivialσ-algebra of subsets ofΩ. LetPbe a

δ-ring of subsets ofΣ, such thatEA∈ Pfor anyE∈ PandA∈Σ.

Let us assume that there exists an increasing sequence of setsKn ∈ Psuch thatΩ

Kn. ByEwe denote the linear space of all simple functions with supports fromP. ByM

we will denote the space of all measurable functions, that is, all functionsf :Ω → Rsuch that there exists a sequence{gn} ∈ E,|gn| ≤ |f|andgnω → fωfor allω ∈Ω. By 1A we

denote the characteristic function of the setA.

Definition 1.1. A functionalρ:E ×Σ → 0,∞is called a function modular if

P1ρ0, E 0 for anyE∈Σ,

P2ρf, Eρg, Ewhenever|| ≤ ||for anyω∈Ω,f, g∈ EandE∈Σ,

P3ρf,·:Σ → 0,∞is aσ-subadditive measure for everyf∈ E,

P4ρα, A → 0 asαdecreases to 0 for everyA∈ P, whereρα, A ρα1A, A,

P5if there existsα >0 such thatρα, A 0, thenρβ, A 0 for everyβ >0, and

P6for anyα >0, ρα, .is order continuous onP, that is,ρα, An → 0 if{An} ∈ P

and decreases to∅.

The definition ofρis then extended tof∈ Mby

ρf, Esupρg, E;gε,gωfω,for everyω∈Ω. 1.2

For the sake of simplicity we writeρfinstead ofρf,Ω.

Definition 1.2. A setEis said to beρ-null ifρα, E 0 for everyα >0.A propertypwis said to holdρ-almost everywhereρ-a.e.if the set{w∈Ω:pwdoes not hold}isρ-null.

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ρ:M → 0,∞is a modular and satisfies the following properties:

iρf 0 if and only iff0 ρ-a.e.,

iiραf ρffor every scalarαwith|α|1 andf∈ M, and

iiiραfβgρf ρgifαβ1,α≥0, β≥0 andf, g∈ M.

In addition, if the following property is satisfied,

iii’ραfβgαρf βρgifαβ1 ,α≥0, β≥0 and,f, g∈ M,

we say thatρis a convex modular.

The modularρ defines a corresponding modular space, that is, the vector space

given by

f ∈ M;ρλf−→0 as λ−→0. 1.3

Whenρis convex, the formula

fpinf α >0;ρ

f

α

≤1

1.4

defines a norm in the modular spacewhich is frequently called the Luxemburg norm. We

can also consider the space

f∈M;ραf, An

→0 asn→ ∞for everyAn∈Σthat decreases to∅ andα >0

. 1.5

Definition 1.4. A function modular is said to satisfy theΔ2-condition if supn≥1ρ2fn, Dk

0 ask → ∞whenever{fn}n≥1 ⊂ M, Dk ∈Σ decreases to ∅and supn≥1ρfn, Dk → 0 as k → ∞.

We know from18thatEρLρwhenρsatisfies theΔ2-condition.

Definition 1.5. A function modular is said to satisfy theΔ2-type condition if there existsK >0

such that for anyfwe haveρ2fKρf.

In general,Δ2-type condition andΔ2-condition are not equivalent, even though it is

obvious thatΔ2-type condition impliesΔ2-condition on the modular spaceLρ.

Definition 1.6. LetŁρbe a modular space.

1The sequence{fn} ⊂ is said to beρ-convergent tof ifρfnf → 0 as n → ∞.

2The sequence{fn} ⊂ is said to beρ-a.e. convergent tof if the set{ω ∈ Ω;fnω}isρ-null.

3The sequence{fn} ⊂is said to beρ-Cauchy ifρfnfm → 0 asnandmgo to

∞.

4A subsetCof is calledρ-closed if theρ-limit of aρ-convergent sequence of C

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5A subset C of is called ρ-a.e. closed if the ρ-a.e. limit of a ρ-a.e. convergent

sequence ofCalways belongs toC.

6A subset C of is called ρ-a.e. compact if every sequence in C has a ρ-a.e.

convergent subsequence inC.

7A subsetCofis calledρ-bounded if

δρC sup

ρfg;f, gC<. 1.6

We recall two basic resultssee15in the theory of modular spaces.

iIf there exists a number α > 0 such that ραfnf → 0, then there exists a

subsequence{gn}of{fn}such thatgn-a.e.

ii Lebesgue’s TheoremIffn, f ∈ M,fn-a.e. and there exists a functiong

such that|fn| ≤ |g|ρ-a.e. for alln,thenfnfp → 0.

We know, by 15, 16 that under Δ2-condition the norm convergence and modular

convergence are equivalent, which implies that the norm and modular convergence are also the same when we deal with theΔ2-type condition. In the sequel we will assume that the

modular functionρis convex and satisfies theΔ2-type condition.

Definition 1.7. Letρbe as aforementioned. We define a growth functionωby

ωt sup

ρtf

ρf, f\ {0}

∀0≤t <. 1.7

We have the following:

Lemma 1.8see19. Letρbe as aforementioned. Then the growth functionωhas the following properties:

1ωt<,t∈0,,

2ω:0,∞ → 0,is a convex, strictly increasing function. So, it is continuous,

3ωαβωαωβ;∀α, β∈0,,

4ω−1αω−1βω−1αβ;α, β0,,whereω−1is the function inverse ofω.

The following lemma shows that the growth function can be used to give an upper bound for the norm of a function.

Lemma 1.9see19. Letρbe a convex function modular satisfying theΔ2-type condition. Then

f

p

1

ω−11f whenever fLρ. 1.8

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Lemma 1.10see16. Letρbe a function modular satisfying theΔ2-condition and let{fn}be a sequence inLρsuch thatfn

ρ−a.e

fLρ, and there existsk > 1such thatsupnρkfnf<. Then,

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fng

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnf

ρfggLρ. 1.9

Moreover, one has

ρf≤lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fn

. 1.10

2. Fixed Points of Contractive-Type and Nonexpansive-Type Maps

In the sequel we assume thatρis a convex,σ-finite modular function satisfying theΔ2-type

condition, and C is a nonemptyρ-bounded subset of the modular function space. We

denote thatCCis a collection of all nonemptyρ-closed subsets ofC, andKCis a collection of all nonemptyρ-compact subsets ofC.

We say that a multivalued mapT : C → 2C isρ-contractive-type if there existsk 0,1such that for anyf, gCand for anyFTf, there existsGTgsuch that

ρFGkρfg, 2.1

andρ-nonexpansive-type if for anyf, gCand for anyFTf, there existsGTgsuch that

ρFGρfg. 2.2

We have the following fixed point theoremfor which a similar result may be found in17.

Theorem 2.1. Let C be a nonemptyρ-closed subset of the modular function spaceLρ. Then any T : C → CCρ-contractive-type map has a fixed point, that is, there exists fC such that

fTf.

Proof. Letf0 ∈ C. Without loss of generality, assume thatf0 is not a fixed point ofT. Then

there exists f1 ∈ Tf0such thatf1/f0. Henceρf0, f1 > 0. SinceT isρ-contractive-type,

then there existsf2∈Tf1such that

ρf1−f2

kρf0−f1

. 2.3

By induction, one can easily construct a sequence{fn} ∈Csuch thatfn1∈Tfnand

ρfn1−fn

kρfnfn−1

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for anyn≥1. In particular we have

ρfn1−fn

knρf1−f0

. 2.5

Without loss of generality, we may assumeρfn1, fn/0, otherwisefnis a fixed point ofT.

Hence

1

knρf

1−f0

≤ 1

ρfn1−fn

2.6

UsingLemma 1.9, we get

fn1−fnρ

1

ω−11fn1fn. 2.7

Using the properties ofωt, we get

ω−1

1

knρf1f0

ω−1

1

ρfn1−fn

. 2.8

So

ω−1

1

k

n ω−1

1

ρf1−f0

ω−1

1

ρfn1−fn

, 2.9

which implies

fn1−fnρ

1

ω−11/knω−11f1f0. 2.10

Sinceω1 1 andk <1, then 1< ω−11/k. This forces{fn}to be · ρ-Cauchy. Hence the

sequence{fn} · ρ-converges to somef. Sinceρsatisfies theΔ2-condition, then{fn}ρ

-converges tof. SinceCisρ-closed, thenfC. Let us prove thatfis indeed a fixed point of

T. SinceT is aρ-contractive-type mapping, then for anyn ≥ 1, there existsFnTfsuch

that

ρfn1−Fn

kρfnf

. 2.11

Hence{ρfn1−Fn}converges to 0. Sinceρsatisfies theΔ2-condition, we have{fn1−Fnρ}

converges to 0. Since{fn} · ρ-converges tof, then{Fn} · ρ-converges tof. Hence{Fn}ρ

-converges tof. SinceTfisρ-closed and{Fn} ∈Tf, we getfTf.

Remark 2.2. Consider the multivalued map TAf A, where A is a nonempty ρ-closed

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point ofTAis exactly the setA. In particular,ρ-contractive-type maps may not have a unique

fixed point.

As an application of the above theorem, we have the following result.

Proposition 2.3. LetCbe aρ-closed convex subset of the modular function spaceLρ. LetT :C

CCbeρ-nonexpansive-type map. Then there exists an approximate fixed points sequence{fn}inC, that is, for anyn≥1there existsFnTfnsuch that

lim

n→ ∞ρ

fnFn

0. 2.12

In particular one haslimn→ ∞distρfn, Tfn 0, where

distρ

fn, T

fn

infρfng

;gTfn

. 2.13

Proof. Letλ∈0,1and letf0be a fixed point inC. For eachfC, define a map

fλf0 1−λT

fλf0 1−λg; gT

f. 2.14

Note that f is nonempty and ρ-closed subset of C because Tfis ρ-closed and C is

convex. SinceT is aρ-nonexpansive-type map, for eachf, gCand for anyFTf, there existsGTgsuch that

ρFGρfg. 2.15

Sinceρis convex we get

ρλf0 1−λF

λf0 1−λG

ρ1−λFG≤1−λρFG, 2.16

which implies

ρλf0 1−λF

λf0 1−λG

≤1−λρfg. 2.17

In other words, the map is aρ-contractive-type. Theorem 2.1implies the existence of a

fixed pointof, thus there existsTfλsuch that

fλλf0 1−λFλ. 2.18

In particular, we have

ρfλ

ρλf0−

λρf0−

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whereδρC supf,g∈Cρfgis theρ-diameter ofC. Note that sinceCisρ-bounded, then δρC<∞. If we chooseλ1/n, forn≥1 and writefn fλn andFnFλn, we get

ρfnFn

δρC

n , 2.20

for anyn≥1, which implies limn→ ∞ρfnFn 0.

Using the above result, we are now ready to prove the main fixed point result for

ρ-nonexpansive-type multivalued maps.

Theorem 2.4. LetCbe a nonemptyρ-closed convex subset of the modular function spaceLρ. Assume thatCisρ-a.e. compact. Then eachρ-nonexpansive-type mapT :C → KChas a fixed point.

Proof. Proposition 2.3ensures the existence of a sequence{fn}inCand a sequence{Fn}such

thatFnTfnand limn→ ∞ρfnFn 0. Without loss of generality we may assume that

{fn}ρ-a.e. converges tofCand{Fn}ρ-a.e. converges toFC.Lemma 1.10implies

ρfF≤lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnFn

0. 2.21

Hencef F. SinceTis aρ-nonexpansive-type map, then there exists a sequence{Gn} ∈Tf

such that

ρFnGnρ

fnf

, 2.22

for alln ≥ 1. SinceTf isρ-compact, we may assume that{Gn}isρ-convergent to some hTf.Lemma 1.10implies

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnf

ρfhlim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnh

. 2.23

Sinceρsatisfies theΔ2-condition, then

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnh

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnFnFnGnGnh

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρFnGn

2.24

see,20. SinceρFnGnρfnf, we get

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnh

≤lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnf

, 2.25

which implies

lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnf

ρfh≤lim inf

n→ ∞ ρ

fnf

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Henceρfh 0 orfh. HencefTf; that is,fis a fixed point ofT.

Proposition 2.3 and Theorem 2.4 are also hold if we assume that C is starshaped instead of Convex.A setCis called starshaped if there existsf0∈Csuch thatλf0−1−λf

CprovidedfCandλ∈0,1.

3. Fixed Points of

w

-Contractive-Type Maps

In 21 the authors introduced the concept of w-distance in metric spaces which they connected to the existence of fixed point of single and multivalued maps see also 22. Similarly we extend their definition and results to modular spaces. Indeed letρbe a convex,

σ-finite modular function. A functionp : × → 0,∞ is called w-modular on the

modular function spaceif the following are satisfied:

1pf, gpf, h ph, gfor anyf, g, h;

2for any f,pf,· : → 0,∞is lower semicontinuous; that is, if {gn}ρ

-converges tog, then

pf, g≤lim inf

n→ ∞ p

f, gn

, 3.1

3for anyε >0, there existsδ >0 such thatpf, gδandpf, hδimplyρg, h

ε.

As it was done in21, we need the following technical lemma.

Lemma 3.1. Let p·,· be w-modular on the modular function space Lρ. Let {fn} and {gn} be sequences in Lρ, and let{αn}and {βn}be sequences in 0,converging to 0, andf, g, hLρ. Then the following hold:

1ifpfn, gαnandpfn, hβn, for alln≥1, theng h; in particular ifpf, g 0 andpf, h 0, theng h;

2ifpfn, gnαnandpfn, hβn, for anyn≥1, then{gn}ρ-converges toh;

3ifpfn, fmαnfor anyn, m≥1withm > n, then{fn}is aρ-Cauchy sequence; 4ifpg, fnαnfor anyn≥1, then{fn}is aρ-Cauchy sequence.

The proof is easy and similar to the one given in21. Now we are ready to give the first fixed point result in this setting. LetCbe a nonemptyρ-closed subset of the modular function space. We say that a multivalued mapT : C → CCis weaklyρ

-contractive-type map if there existsw-modularp·,·onandk∈0,1such that for anyf, gCand

anyFTf, there existsGTgsuch thatpF, Gkpf, g.

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Proof. Letp·,·be aw-modular andk ∈ 0,1associated toT, that is, for anyf, gCand anyFTf, there existsGTgsuch thatpF, Gkpf, g. Fixf0 ∈Candf1∈Tf0. By

induction one can construct a sequence{fn}such thatfn1∈Tfnand

pfn, fn1

kpfn−1, fn

, 3.2

for everyn ≥ 1. In particular we havepfn, fn1 ≤ knpf0, f1, for everyn ≥ 1. Using the

properties ofp·,·, we get

pfn, fnh

kn

1−kp

f0, f1

, 3.3

for any n, h ≥ 1. Lemma 3.1 implies that the sequence {fn} is ρ-Cauchy. Hence {fn}ρ

-converges to somefC. Using the lower semicontinuity ofp, we get

pfn, f

≤lim inf

n→ ∞ p

fn, fnh

kn

1−kp

f0, f1

, 3.4

for anyn≥ 1. SincefnTfn−1andT is weaklyρ-contractive-type map, there existsgnTfsuch that

pfn, gn

kpfn−1, f

kn

1−kp

f0, f1

, 3.5

for anyn ≥2.Lemma 3.1implies that{gn}ρ- converges tof as well. SinceTfisρ-closed,

then fTf, that is, f is a fixed point of T. Let us complete the proof by showing that

pf, f 0. SincefTf, there existsh1 ∈Tfsuch thatpf, h1≤kpf, f. By induction

we can construct a sequence{hn}inCsuch thathn1 ∈Thnandpf, hn1≤ kpf, hn, for

any n ≥ 1. So we havepf, hnknpf, f, for anyn ≥ 1. Lemma 3.1implies that{hn}is ρ-Cauchy. Hence{hn}ρ- converges to somehC. Using the lower semicontinuity ofp·,·

we get

pf, h≤lim inf

n→ ∞ p

f, hn

≤0. 3.6

Hencepf, h 0. Then for anyn≥1, we have

pfn, h

pfn, f

pf, hk n

1−kp

f0, f1

. 3.7

Lemma 3.1impliesfh, orpf, f 0.

Note that in the proof above we did not use theΔ2-condition. The reason behind is

that p·,· satisfies the triangle inequality. If T is single valued, then we have little more information about the fixed point. Indeed, letCbe a nonemptyρ-closed subset of the modular function space. The mapT : CCis called a weaklyρ-contractive type map if there

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Theorem 3.3. Let Cbe a nonempty ρ-closed subset of the modular function space Lρ. Then each weaklyρ-contractive type mapT :CChas a unique fixed pointfC, andpf, f 0.

Proof. Theorem 3.2ensures the existence of a fixed pointfC, that is,Tf fandpf, f 0. Let us show thatf is the only fixed point ofT. Assume thathCis another fixed point ofT. Then we must havepf, h 0. Combining this withpf, f 0,Lemma 3.1implies

fh.

Similar extensions of the results as found in21–23may be proved in our setting.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the referees for their valuable comments and suggestions. The authors would also like to thank Professor M.A. Khamsi for productive discussion and cooperation regarding this work.

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