Existence of fixed points in a class of convex sets (Q2327742)

Summary: There are many well-known results about existence of fixed points for nonexpansive mappings defined on convex sets of Banach spaces which are \(\tau\)-compact, where \(\tau\) is usually a topology coarser than the norm topology. In this paper, we prove that it is possible to remove the \(\tau\)-compactness assumption and still obtain some fixed point results in a large framework. As particular cases, we can consider certain families of non-\(w^\ast\)-compact subsets in \(\ell_1\), the James space \(J_p\), the trace space \(\mathcal{C}_1(\ell_2)\) and some other dual nonreflexive Banach spaces and we prove that ``local'' stability results for nonexpansive mappings can be achieved. In order to reach our purposes, we will make use of two new geometric coefficients \(a_\tau(X)\) and \(t_\tau(C)\). Since the problem of the existence of fixed points for a nonexpansive mapping can equivalently be redefined assuming that the mapping is asymptotically regular, we will first focus on asymptotically regular mappings which satisfy a rather weak Lipschitz condition according to the value of the fraction \(\frac{a_\tau(X)}{t_\tau(C)}\). Furthermore, we will show some examples proving that our results are sharp and can be used to obtain ``global'' stability results for the fixed point property.