Title: On a useful lemma that relates quasi-nonexpansive and demicontractive mappings in Hilbert spaces

Abstract: We give a brief account on a basic result (Lemma \ref{lem2}) which is a very useful tool in proving various convergence theorems in the framework of the iterative approximation of fixed points of demicontractive mappings in Hilbert spaces. This Lemma relates the class of quasi-nonexpansive mappings, by one hand, and the class of $k$-demicontractive mappings (quasi $k$-strict pseudocontractions), on the other hand and essentially states that the class of demicontractive mappings, which strictly includes the class of quasi-nonexpansive mappings, can be embedded in the later by means of an averaged perturbation. From the point of view of the fixed point problem, this means that any convergence result for Krasnoselskij-Mann iterative algorithms in the class of $k$-demicontractive mappings can be derived from its corresponding counterpart from quasi-nonexpansive mappings.