We study the following generalized quasivariational inequality problem: given a closed convex set <i>X</i> in a normed space <i>E</i> with the dual <i>E</i> ^*, a multifunction \Phi :Xightarrow 2^{E^{*}} and a multifunction :<i>X</i>2^<i>X</i>, find a point \Phi :Xightarrow 2^{E^{*}} such that \Phi :Xightarrow 2^{E^{*}} , \Phi :Xightarrow 2^{E^{*}} . We prove some existence theorems in which may be discontinuous, <i>X</i> may be unbounded, and is not assumed to be Hausdorff lower semicontinuous.

Let E be a real Banach space with a uniformly Gteaux differentiable norm and which possesses uniform normal structure, K a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of E,{T i} i= 1 N a finite family of asymptotically nonexpansive self-mappings on K with common sequence {k n} n= 1[1,),{t n},{s n} be two sequences in (0, 1) such that s n+ t n= 1 (n 1) and f be a contraction on K. Under suitable conditions on the sequences {s n},{t n}, we show the existence of a sequence {x n} satisfying the relation x n=(1 1 k n) x n+ s n k n f (x n)+ t n k n T r n n x n where n= l n N+ r n for some unique integers l n 0 and 1 r n N. Further we prove that {x n} converges strongly to a common fixed point of {T i} i= 1 N, which solves some variational inequality, provided x n T i x n 0 as n for i= 1, 2,, N. As an application, we prove that the iterative process defined by z 0 K, z n+ 1=(1 1 k n) z n+ s n k n f (z n)+ t n k n

Let and be a real uniformly smooth Banach space. Let be a nonempty closed convex subset of and be a strictly pseudocontractive mapping in the sense of FE Browder and WV Petryshyn [1]. Let be a bounded sequence in and be real sequences in satisfying some restrictions. Let be the bounded sequence in generated from any given by the Ishikawa iteration method with errors: , , . It is shown in this paper that if is compact or demicompact, then converges strongly to a fixed point of .

A not necessarily continuous, linear or multiplicative function from an algebra A into itself is called a 2-local automorphism if agrees with an automorphism of A at each pair of points in A. In this paper, we study when a 2-local automorphism of a C-algebra, or a standard operator algebra on a locally convex space, is an automorphism.

Recently, the invertibility of linear combinations of two idempotents has been studied by several authors. Let P and Q be idempotents in a Banach algebra. It was shown that the invertibility of P+ Q is equivalent to that of aP+ bQ for nonzero a, b with a+ b= 0. In this note, we obtain a similar result for square zero operators and those operators satisfying x2= dx for some scalar d. More generally, we show that if P, Q satisfy a quadratic polynomial (x c)(x d) then the linear combination aP+ bQ c (a+ b) being invertible or Fredholm (and the index) is independent of the choice of the nonzero scalars a, b. However, this is not the case when P and Q are involutions, unitaries, partial isometries, k-potents (k 3) and other nilpotents, as counterexamples are provided.