A convexity of functions on convex metric spaces of Takahashi and applications | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Mathematical Society | ||||
| Volume 24, Issue 3, 2016, Page 348-354 PDF (496.46 K) | ||||
| DOI: 10.1016/j.joems.2015.10.003 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Ahmed A. Abdelhakim | ||||
| Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut 71516, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| We show that Takahashi’s idea of convex structures on metric spaces is a natural gener- alization of convexity in normed linear spaces and Euclidean spaces in particular. Then we introduce a concept of convex structure based convexity to functions on these spaces and refer to it as W - convexity. W -convex functions generalize convex functions on linear spaces. We provide illustrative examples of (strict) W -convex functions and dedicate the major part of this paper to proving a variety of properties that make them fit in very well with the classical theory of convex analysis. As expected, the lack of linearity forced us to make some compromises in terms of conditions on either the metric or the convex structure. Finally, we apply some of our results to the metric projection problem and fixed point theory. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Convex metric space; W -convex functions; Metric projection | ||||
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