Resolvents of Set-Valued Monotone Vector Fields in Hadamard Manifolds

Abstract

Firmly nonexpansive mappings are introduced in Hadamard manifolds, a particular class of Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature. The resolvent of a set-valued vector field is defined in this setting and by means of this concept, a strong relationship between monotone vector fields and firmly nonexpansive mappings is established. This fact is then used to prove that the resolvent of a maximal monotone vector field has full domain. The Yosida approximation of a set-valued vector field is also introduced, analyzing its properties from which the asymptotic behavior of the resolvent is studied. Regarding the singularities of a set-valued monotone vector field, existence results are proved under certain boundary condition. As a consequence, the existence of fixed points for continuous pseudo-contractive mappings is obtained.