Open Access Review Article

Normal Structure and Common Fixed Point Properties for Semigroups of Nonexpansive Mappings in Banach Spaces

AnthonyTo-Ming Lau

Author Affiliations

Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2G1

Fixed Point Theory and Applications 2010, 2010:580956 doi:10.1155/2010/580956

Published: 28 February 2010

Abstract

In 1965, Kirk proved that if is a nonempty weakly compact convex subset of a Banach space with normal structure, then every nonexpansive mapping has a fixed point. The purpose of this paper is to outline various generalizations of Kirk's fixed point theorem to semigroup of nonexpansive mappings and for Banach spaces associated to a locally compact group.