Approximating fixed points of demicontractive mappings via the quasi-nonexpansive case

We prove that the convergence theorems for Mann iteration used for approximation of the fixed points of demicontractive mappings in Hilbert spaces can be derived from the corresponding convergence the-orems in the class of quasi-nonexpansive mappings. Our derivation is based on an important auxiliary lemma (Lemma 3.2), which shows that if T is k-demicontractive, then for any lambda is an element of (0, 1 - k), T-lambda is quasi-nonexpansive.In this way we obtain a unifying technique of proof for various well known results in the fixed point theory of demicontractive mappings. We illustrate this reduction technique for the case of two classical convergence results in the class of demi-contractive mappings: [Marus , ter, S , t. The solution by iteration of nonlinear equations in Hilbert spaces. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 63 (1977), no. 1, 69-73] and [Hicks, T. L.; Kubicek, J. D. On the Mann iteration process in a Hilbert space. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 59 (1977), no. 3, 498-504].