Fixed points and approximate fixed points in product spaces (Q5944187)

Let \((X,\rho)\) and \((Y,d)\) be metric spaces with the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings and let \(T\colon X\times Y\to X\times Y\) be nonexpansive relatively to the metric \(d_\infty((x,u),(y,v))=\max\{\rho(x,y),d(u,v)\}\) for \((x,u),(y,v)\in X\times Y\). In a natural way, the following problem arises: does \(T\) necessarily have a fixed point? The authors give a positive answer to this question for mappings \(T\) satisfying various contractive conditions. In the last part of the paper an approximate fixed point theorem for nonexpansive mappings in a certain product space \((K\times M)_\infty\) is proved. Here \(M\) is a metric space which has the approximate fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings and \(K\) is a bounded closed convex subset of a Banach space.