Various properties of continuity for the class of lower semicontinuous convex functions are considered and dual characterizations are established. In particular, it is shown that the restriction of a lower semicontinuous convex function to its domain (respectively, domain of subdifferentiability) is continuous if and only if its subdifferential is strongly cyclically monotone (respectively, σ-cyclically monotone).

This paper focuses on the analyticity of the limiting behavior of a class of dynamical systems defined by iteration of non-expansive random operators. The analyticity is understood with respect to the parameters which govern the law of the operators. The proofs are based on contraction with respect to certain projective semi-norms. Several examples are considered, including Lyapunov exponents associated with products of random matrices both in the conventional algebra, and in the (max, +) semi-field, and Lyapunov exponents associated with non-linear dynamical systems arising in stochastic control. For the class of reducible operators (defined in the paper), we also address the issue of analyticity of the expectation of functionals of the limiting behavior, and connect this with contraction properties with respect to the supremum norm. We give several applications to queueing theory.

The classic Banach Contraction Principle assumes that the self-map is a contraction. Rather than requiring that a single operator be a contraction, we weaken this hypothesis by considering a minimum involving a set of iterates of that operator. This idea is a central motif for many of the results of this paper, in which we also study how this weakended hypothesis may be applied in Caristi's theorem, and how combinatorial arguments may be used in proving fixed-point theorems.

New existence conditions, under which an index at infinity can be calculated, are given for bifurcations at infinity of asymptotically linear equations in spaces of vector-valued functions. The case where a bounded nonlinearity has discontinuous principal homogeneous part is considered. The results are applied to 2π-periodic problems for two-dimensional systems of ordinary differential equations and to a vector two-point boundary value problem.

We state best approximation and fixed point theorems in modular spaces endowed with an H-space structure given by the modular topology. We consider both the cases of single valued functions and multifunctions. These theorems extend some previous results due to Ky Fan.

We prove that every Banach space X with characteristic of uniform convexity less than 2 has the fixed point property whenever X satisfies a certain orthogonality condition.

General periodic and fixed point theorems are proved for a class of self maps of a quasi-metric space which satisfy the contractive definition (A) below. Two examples are presented to show that the class of mappings which satisfy (A) is indeed wider than a class of selfmaps which satisfy Caristi's contractive definition (C) below. Also a common fixed point theorem for a pair of maps which satisfy a contractive condition (D) below is established.

Banach's contraction principle guarantees the existence of a unique fixed point for any contractive selfmapping of a complete metric space. This paper considers generalizations of the completeness of the space and of the contractiveness of the mapping and shows that some recent extensions of Banach's theorem carry over to spaces whose topologies are generated by families of quasi-pseudometrics.

Some results on fixed point of asymptotically regular multivalued mapping are obtained in metric spaces. The structure of common fixed points and coincidence points of a pair of compatible multivalued mappings is also discussed. Our work generalizes known results of Aubin and Siegel, Dube, Dube and Singh, Hardy and Rogers, Hu, Iseki, Jungck, Kaneko, Nadler, Ray and Shiau, Tan and Wong.

Some fixed point theorems on H-spaces are presented. These theorems are then applied to generalize a theorem of Fan concerning sets with convex sections to H-spaces and to prove the existence of equilibrium points of abstract economics in which the commodity space is an H-space.

Let A be a subset of a Banach space E. A mapping T: A →A is called asymptoically semicontractive if there exists a mapping S: A×A→A and a sequence (kn) in [1, ∞] such that Tx=S(x, x) for all x ∈A while for each fixed x ∈A, S(., x) is asymptotically nonexpansive with sequence (kn) and S(x,.) is strongly compact. Among other things, it is proved that each asymptotically semicontractive self-mpping T of a closed bounded and convex subset A of a uniformly convex Banach space E which satisfies Opial's condition has a fixed point in A, provided s has a certain asymptoticregurity property.

Matching theorems, fixed point theorems and minimax inequalities are obtained in H-spaces which generalize the corresponding results of Bae-Kim-Tan, Browder, Fan, Horvath, Kim, Ko-Tan, Shih-Tan, Takahashi, Tan and Tarafdar to non-compact and/or non-convex settings.

We introduce a new constant in Banach spaces which implies, in certain cases, the weak- or weak*-normal structure.

We prove a version of the Feller-Miyadera-Phillips theorem characterizing the infinitesimal generators of positive C0-semigroups on ordered Banach spaces with normal cones. This is done in terms of N(A) as well as the canonical half-norms of Arendt Chernoff and Kato defined by N(a) = inf{‖b‖ |b ≥ a}, where N(A) = sup{N(Aa) |N(a) ≶ 1} for operator A. A corresponding result on –semigroups is also given.

A geometric property of convex sets which is equivalent to a minimax inequality of the Ky Fan type is formulated. This property is used directly to prove minimax inequalities of the von Neumann type, minimax inequalities of the Fan-Kneser type, and fixed point theorems for inward and outward maps.

The notion of (p, k)-epi mappings is introduced. The properties of such mappings are studied and the results obtained are applied to some differential equations.

Let E be a Hausdorff topological vector space, let K be a nonempty compact convex subset of E and let f, g: K → 2E be upper semicontinuous such that for each x ∈ K, f(x) and g(x) are nonempty compact convex. Let Ω ⊂ 2E be convex and contain all sets of the form x − f(x), y − x + g(x) − f(x), for x, y ∈ K. Suppose p: K × Ω →, R satisfies: (i) for each (x, A) ∈ K × Ω and for ε > 0, there exist a neighborhood U of x in K and an open subset set G in E with A ⊂ G such that for all (y, B) ∈ K ×Ω with y ∈ U and B ⊂ G, | p(y, B) - p(x, A)| < ε, and (ii) for each fixed X ∈ K, p(x, ·) is a convex function on Ω. If p(x, x − f(x)) ≤ p(x, g(x) − f(x)) for all x ∈ K, and if, for each x ∈ K with f(x) ∩ g(x) = ø, there exists y ∈ K with p(x, y − x + g(x) − f(x)) < p(x, x − f(x)), then there exists an x0 ∈ K such that f(x0) ∩ g(x0) ≠ ø. Another coincidence theorem on a nonempty compact convex subset of a Hausdorff locally convex topological vector space is also given.

We first define an inscribed center of a bounded convex body in a normed linear space as the center of a largest open ball contained in it (when such a ball exists). We then show that completeness is a necessary condition for a normed linear space to admit inscribed centers. We show that every weakly compact convex body in a Banach space has at least one inscribed center, and that admitting inscribed centers is a necessary and sufficient condition for reflexivity. We finally apply the concept of inscribed center to prove a type of fixed point theorem and also deduce a proposition concerning so-called Klee caverns in Hilbert spaces.

Suppose H is a complex Hilbert space and K is a nonempty closed convex subset of H. Suppose T: K → H is a monotomc Lipschitzian mapping with constant L ≧ 1 such that, for x in K and h in H, the equation x + Tx Tx = h has a solution q in K. Given x0 in K, let {Cn}∞n=0 be a real sequence satisfying: (i) C0 = 1, (ii) 0 ≦ Cn < L-2 for all n ≧ 1, (iii) ΣnCn(1 − Cn) diverges. Then the sequence {Pn}∞n=0 in H defined by pn = (1 − Cn)xn + CnSxn, n ≧ 0, where {xn}∞n=0 in K is such that, for each n ≧ 1, ∥ xn – Pn−1 ∥ = infx ∈ k ∥ Pn−1 − x ∥, converges strongly to a solution q of x + Tx = h. Explicit error estimates are given. A similar result is also proved for the case when the operator T is locally Lipschitzian and monotone.