Uniformly nonsquare Banach spaces have the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings (Q2491626): Difference between revisions

Whether reflexive (or even superreflexive) Banach spaces have the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings is a long-standing open question in metric fixed point theory. In this interesting and significant article, the authors use the modulus of nearly uniform smoothness and a geometric coefficient introduced by \textit{T. Domínguez-Benavides} in [Houston J. Math. 22, 835--849 (1996; Zbl 0873.46012)] to prove a more general theorem, namely that uniformly nonsquare Banach spaces have the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings. Since uniformly nonsquare Banach spaces are superreflexive, the authors' results provide a partial answer to the open questions above.