Weak and strong convergence of a relaxed inertial proximal splitting algorithm for solving hierarchical equilibrium problems

In this chapter, we introduce the relaxed inertial proximal splitting algorithm (RIPSA) for hierarchical equilibrium problems. Using Opial-Passty's lemma, we first establish weak ergodic and weak convergence of the sequence generated by the algorithm to a solution of the problem, in the absence of the Browder-Halpern contraction factor. We then derive a strong convergence result under an additional strong monotonicity assumption. Subsequently, we relax this requirement by removing strong monotonicity and instead incorporating a Browder-Halpern contraction factor into (RIPSA), which guarantees strong convergence to a solution determined by the contraction factor. Finally, we discuss two related settings: convex minimization problems and monotone variational inequalities formulated as fixed-point problems for nonexpansive operators.