We give the weakest constraint qualification known to us that ensures the maximal monotonicity of the operator A∗ ◦ T ◦A when A is a linear continuous mapping between two reflexive Banach spaces and T is a maximal monotone operator. As a special case we get the weakest constraint qualification that ensures the maximal monotonicity of the sum of two maximal monotone operators on a reflexive Bana...

Maximal monotone operators on a Banach space into its dual can be represented by convex functions bounded below by the duality product. It is natural to ask under which conditions a convex function represents a maximal monotone operator. A satisfactory answer, in the context of reflexive Banach spaces, has been obtained some years ago. Recently, a partial result on non-reflexive Banach spaces w...

We introduce an iterative scheme for finding a common element of the solution set of a maximal monotone operator and the solution set of the variational inequality problem for an inverse strongly-monotone operator in a uniformly smooth and uniformly convex Banach space, and then we prove weak and strong convergence theorems by using the notion of generalized projection. The result presented in ...

Such a set G is said to be maximal monotone if it is maximal among monotone sets in the sense of set inclusion, and a mapping T is said to be maximal monotone if its graph G(T) is a maximal monotone set. For reflexive Banach spaces X and mappings T with D(T)~X, the basic result obtained independently by Browder [2] and Minty [20] states that if T is a monotone operator from D(T)=X to X* which i...

We prove strong convergence theorems for finding a common element of the zero point set of a maximal monotone operator and the fixed point set of a hemirelatively nonexpansive mapping in a Banach space by using monotone hybrid iteration method. By using these results, we obtain new convergence results for resolvents of maximal monotone operators and hemirelatively nonexpansive mappings in a Ban...

Previous examples of non-type (D) maximal monotone operators were restricted to 1, L1, and Banach spaces containing isometric copies of these spaces. This fact led to the conjecture that non-type (D) operators were restricted to this class of Banach spaces. We present a linear non-type (D) operator in c0.

Any maximal monotone operator can be characterized by a convex function. The family of such convex functions is invariant under a transformation connected with the Fenchel-Legendre conjugation. We prove that there exist a convex representation of the operator which is a fixed point of this conjugation. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H05 keywords: maximal monotone operators, conjugat...

This paper deals with a new system of nonlinear variational inclusion problems involving (A, η)-maximal relaxed monotone and relative (A, η)-maximal monotone mappings in 2-uniformly smooth Banach spaces. Using the generalized resolvent operator technique, the approximation solvability of the proposed problem is investigated. An iterative algorithm is constructed to approximate the solution of t...

In a recent paper by Monteiro and Svaiter, a hybrid proximal extragradient (HPE) framework was used to study the iteration-complexity of a first-order (or, in the context of optimization, second-order) method for solving monotone nonlinear equations. The purpose of this paper is to extend this analysis to study a prox-type first-order method for monotone smooth variational inequalities and incl...