Denjoy-Wolff theorems, Hilbert metric nonexpansive maps and reproduction-decimation operators (Q924650)

Let \(K\) be a closed cone with nonempty interior in a Banach space \(X\). Suppose that \(f:\mathop{\text{int}}K \to \mathop{\text{int}}K\) is order-preserving and homogeneous of degree one. Let \(q:K\to[ 0,\infty)\) be a continuous, homogeneous of degree one map such that \(q(x) > 0\) for all \(x\in K\setminus\{0\}\). Let \(T(x) = f(x)/q(f(x))\). The authors give conditions on the cone \(K\) and the map \(f\) which imply that there is a convex subset of \(\partial K\) which contains the omega limit set \(\omega (x;T)\) for every \(x \in \mathop{\text{int}} K\). They show that these conditions are satisfied by reproduction-decimation operators and that \(\omega (x;T) \subset \partial K\) for a class of operator-valued means. The present paper present considerable achievement in continuation of other works that the authors have published in this domain of mathematical analysis.