Monotone vector fields and generation of nonexpansive semigroups in complete CAT(0) spaces

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss about monotone vector fields, which is a typical extension to the theory of convex functions, by exploiting the tangent space structure. This new approach to monotonicity in CAT(0) spaces stands in opposed to the monotonicity defined earlier in CAT(0) spaces by Khatibzadeh and Ranjbar [14] and Chaipunya and Kumam [8]. In particular, this new concept extends the theory from both Hilbert spaces and Hadamard manifolds, while the known concept barely has any obvious relationship to the theory in Hadamard manifolds. We also study the corresponding resolvents and Yosida approximations of a given monotone vector field and derive many of their important properties. Finally, we prove a generation theorem by showing convergence of an exponential formula applied to resolvents of a monotone vector field. Our findings improve several known results in the literature including generation theorems of Jost [13, Theorem 1.3.13], Mayer [19, Theorem 1.13], Stojkovic [22, Theorem 2.18], and Bacák [4, Theorem 1.5] for proper, convex, lower semicontinuous functions in the context of complete CAT(0) spaces, and also by Iwamiya and Okochi [11, Theorem 4.1] for monotone vector fields in the context of Hadamard manifolds.