Virtually nonexpansive maps and their convergence sets (Q860948)

The author introduces another extension of nonexpansive mappings, namely, virtually nonexpansive mappings. This new class is more general than the class of continuous asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive maps. It is shown that the fixed point set of a virtually nonexpansive selfmap of a metric space is a retract of its convergence set. Moreover, it is proved that in the case of complete metric spaces, total boundedness of the fixed point set implies that the convergence set is a \(G_{\delta}\)-set. Finally, the author discusses some criteria to obtain an explicit retraction from the domain onto the fixed point set of a nonexpansive or a quasi-nonexpansive mapping in the Banach space setting. Considerations included in this paper are illustrated by suitable examples.