
Chapter 7
Averaged and Paracontractive
Operators
7.1 Averaged Operators .............................................. 91
7.2 Gradient Operators .............................................. 94
7.3 Two Useful Identities ............................................ 94
7.4 The Krasnosel’skii-Mann-Opial Theorem ........................ 95
7.5 Affine Linear Operators .......................................... 96
7.5.1 The Hermitian Case ..................................... 96
7.6 Paracontractive Operators ....................................... 96
7.6.1 Linear and Affine Paracontractions ..................... 97
7.6.2 The Elsner-Koltracht-Neumann Theorem ............... ...