We show that if a Banach space X has the weak fixed point property for
nonexpansive mappings and Y has the generalized Gossez-Lami Dozo property or is
uniformly convex in every direction, then the direct sum of X and Y with a
strictly monotone norm has the weak fixed point property. The result is new
even if Y is finite-dimensional.Comment: 9 pages. To appear, Studia Mathematic