Journal of Inequalities and Applications
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 520301, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/520301
Research Article

A New Approximation Method for Solving Variational Inequalities and Fixed Points of Nonexpansive Mappings

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand

Received 3 June 2009; Revised 31 August 2009; Accepted 1 November 2009

Academic Editor: Vy Khoi Le

Copyright © 2009 Chakkrid Klin-eam and Suthep Suantai. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

A new approximation method for solving variational inequalities and fixed points of nonexpansive mappings is introduced and studied. We prove strong convergence theorem of the new iterative scheme to a common element of the set of fixed points of nonexpansive mapping and the set of solutions of the variational inequality for the inverse-strongly monotone mapping which solves some variational inequalities. Moreover, we apply our main result to obtain strong convergence to a common fixed point of nonexpansive mapping and strictly pseudocontractive mapping in a Hilbert space.