Mewomo, Oluwatosin Temitope.Alakoya, Timilehin Opeyemi.Godwin, Emeka Chigaemezu.2023-02-282023-02-2820232023https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/21380Doctoral Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.In this thesis, in the framework of Banach spaces, we study several iterative methods for finding the solutions of many important problems in fixed point theory and optimization. Some of these include the equilibrium problem, monotone variational inclusion problem, variational inequality problem, split common fixed point problem and split minimization problem. In addition, we study fixed point problem for some important and interesting classes of mappings such as nonexpansive mappings, pseudocontractive mappings, asymptotically demicontractive mappings, quasi-pseudocontractive mappings, demimetric mappings and multivalued demicontractive mappings in real Hilbert spaces. Furthermore, we study some other classes of mappings which include the class of Bregman quasi-nonexpansive mappings and Bregman relatively nonexpansive mappings in real p-uniformly convex Banach spaces which are also uniformly smooth. Another important problem considered is the split equality problem. The split equality problem has gained attention from authors because of its vast applications to real life problems. This problem is known to contain several other optimization problems as special cases. Based on its numerous applications, we study a multiple set split equality equilibrium problem consisting of pseudomonotone bifunctions together with fixed point problem of certain nonlinear mappings in p-uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces. In each case, we propose and study iterative algorithms for approximating the solutions of these problems and prove strong convergence theorems under suitable conditions on the control parameters. In most cases, we incorporate the inertial term which is known to speed up the convergence rate of iterative schemes. In addition, we employ several efficient iterative techniques which include the projection and contraction method, alternative regularization method, modified Halpern’s method, inertial Tseng’s extragradient method and viscosity approximation method. In all the cases, we design our algorithms in such a way that the step size does not depend on the knowledge of the Lipschitz constants of the cost operator or the norm of the bounded linear operators. We present some applications of our results to solve convex minimization problems, multiple set split variational inequality problem, image restoration problem, oligopolistic market equilibrium problem, among others. Also, we present several numerical experiments to demonstrate the efficiency, applicability and usefulness of our iterative schemes in comparison with several of the existing methods in the literature. The results obtained in this thesis extend and improve many existing results in the literature in a unified way.enMathematical optimization.Iterative methods (Mathematics).Mappings (Mathematics).Iterative algorithms.Thesis