1. Introduction
In nonlinear analysis, the theory of fixed points plays one of the important parts and has many applications in computing sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. In 1922, Stefan Banach [
1] established a prominent fixed-point result for contractive mapping in complete metric space
. Berinde [
2] gave the notion of almost contraction and extended Banach’s contraction principle.
Definition 1 ([
2])
. A mapping is called an almost contraction if ∃ and some such that Samet et al. [
3] defined the concept of
-admissible mappings as follows:
Definition 2 ([
3])
. Let and . We say that is a α-admissible mapping if In 2012, Wardowski [
4] introduced a new class of contractions called
F-contraction and proved a fixed-point result as a generalization of the Banach contraction principle.
Let be the collection of all mappings that satisfy the following conditions:
- ()
F is strictly increasing;
- ()
for all , ⟺
- ()
∃ so that
Definition 3 ([
4])
. A mapping is said to be a F-contraction if there exists such that We denote by the set of all mappings satisfying ()–() and continuous from the right. For more details in the direction of F-contractions, we refer the readers to [5,6,7,8,9,10]. On the other hand, Nadler [
11] initiated the notion of multivalued contraction and extended the Banach contraction principle from single-valued mapping to multivalued mapping.
Definition 4 ([
11])
. A point ϖ∈Ω is called a fixed point of the multivalued mapping : Ω→ if ϖ. For
let
be defined by
where
Such
H is called the generalized Hausdorff–Pompieu metric induced by the metric
and
and
indicate the class of all nonempty, closed, and closed and bounded subsets of
, respectively.
Definition 5 ([
11])
. A mapping : Ω→ is said to be a multivalued contraction if ∃ such that Berinde et al. [
12] introduced the notion of almost multivalued contraction as follows:
Definition 6 ([
12])
. Let K a nonempty subset of Ω. A mapping : K→ is said to be an almost multivalued contraction if ∃ and some such that Theorem 1 ([
12])
. Let (Ω, ϑ) be a complete metric space and : Ω→ an almost multivalued contraction, then has a fixed point. In 1994, Constantin [
13] introduced a new family of continuous functions
satisfying the following assertions:
- ()
- ()
is sub-homogeneous, i.e., for all and we have
- ()
is a non-decreasing function, i.e., for
we have
and if
then
and
and obtained a random fixed-point theorem for multivalued mappings. Following the lines in [
13], we denote, by
, the set of all above continuous functions. Isik [
14] used the above family of functions and established multivalued fixed-point theorem in complete metric space. For more details in the direction of multivalued generalization, we refer the reader to (see [
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22] ).
The theory of multivalued mappings has applications in control theory, convex optimization, differential equations, and economics. In recent years, the study of fixed point for multivalued mappings has gone beyond mere generalization of the single-valued case. Such studies have also been applied to prove the existence of equilibria in the context of game theory, and one such example is that of the famous Nash equilibrium. Thus, the correlation of symmetry is inherent in the study of multivalued fixed-point theory.
In the present paper, we define the notion of almost -contraction by considering the concept of -admissibility, F-contraction, almost multivalued contraction, and the above set of continuous functions to obtain generalized fixed-point results for a new class of contractive conditions in the context of complete metric spaces.
The following lemmas of Isik [
14] are needed in the sequel.
Lemma 1 ([
14])
. If and are such thatthen Lemma 2 ([
14])
. Let be a metric space and with Then, ∀ and ∃ so that 2. Results
Definition 7. A multivalued mapping is said to be an almost -contraction, if ∃ , and so that with Theorem 2. Let be a complete metric space and be an almost (-contraction such that these assertions hold:
- (i)
is an α-admissible mapping,
- (ii)
∃ and with
- (iii)
for any in Ω so that and ∀, we have ∀.
Then such that
Proof. By hypothesis (ii), there exist
and
with
If
then
is a fixed point of
and so the proof is finished. Thus, we suppose that
Then
and hence
From (6), we get
and so
Then Lemma 1 shows that
Thus, we obtain
Since
, so ∃
such that
Next as
by Lemma 2, there exists
(obviously,
such that
Thus, by (8)–(10), we have
which implies by (7) that
Since
So by the
-admissibility of
and (6), we have
and so
Then Lemma 1 gives that
Thus, we obtain
Since
, so ∃
such that
Next, as
by Lemma 1, there exists
(obviously,
such that
Thus, by (14)–(16), we have
which implies by (13) that
Thus, we have
Thus, pursuing these lines, we obtain
in
so that
and
∀
Furthermore
∀
Therefore by (19), we have
Letting
, we have
that jointly with (
) gives
Thus, from (
), ∃
so that
By (20) and (21), we obtain
Thus,
, which implies that
converges. Hence the sequence
is Cauchy in
As
is complete, so ∃
such that
Now, we prove that
By condition (iii), we have
Assume on the contrary that
, then ∃
and
of
so that
∀
Now, using (3.1) with
and
, we have
Taking
, we get
which implies by Lemma 1 that
which is a contradiction. Hence
. Thus, by the closedness of
, we deduce that
. Hence
□
3. Consequences
Now we give a result of Banach-type
-contraction [
1] in this way.
Corollary 1. Let . Suppose that and such that∀ with Then such that Proof. Considering given by and in Theorem 2. □
Now we give a result of Kannan-type
F-contraction [
23] in this way.
Corollary 2. Let . Suppose that and such that∀ with Then such that Proof. Considering given by and in Theorem 2. □
Now we give a result of Chatterjea-type
F-contraction [
24] in this way.
Corollary 3. Let . Suppose that and such that∀ with Then such that Proof. Considering given by and in Theorem 2. □
Now we give a result of Hardy–Roger-type
F-contraction [
25] in this way.
Corollary 4 ([
9])
. Let . Suppose that and and non-negative real numbers and with such that∀ with Then such that Proof. Considering given by and in Theorem 2. □
Now we give a result of Ćirić-type
F-contraction [
26] in this way.
Corollary 5. Let . Suppose that and such that∀ with Then such that Proof. Considering given by and in Theorem 2. □
The next result is also a Ćirić-type
F-contraction [
27].
Corollary 6. Let . Suppose that and such that∀ with Then such that Proof. Considering given by in Theorem 2. □
Example 1. Let be endowed with the usual metric Define byand by We declare that is an almost -contraction with defined by , ∀ , , by and For that, we need to show that∀ with Now we discuss these cases: - Case 1.
If
- Case 2.
If
with
Then we have
- Case 3.
If or and or with Then Then the contractive condition is satisfied trivially. Thus, is an almost -contraction. For , we have such that Furthermore, it is simple to show that is strict -admissible and for so that as and ∀ we get ∀. Therefore, by Theorem 2, has a fixed point in .
4. Applications
Fixed-point results for multivalued mappings in ordered Banach spaces are extensively explored and have a variety of applications in differential and integral inclusions (see [
19,
21,
28]). In the present section, we apply the established theorems to obtain the existence of solutions for a recognized Fredholm integral inclusion
Consider the metric
on
defined by
∀
Then
is a complete metric space.
We will suppose the following conditions:
() for each is such that is lower semi-continuous in ,
(
) there exists some continuous function
such that
∀
(
) ∃
such that
Theorem 3. With assertions ()–(), the integral inclusion (25) has a solution in .
Proof. Let
. Define the multivalued mapping
by
It is simple and direct that the set of solutions of integral inclusion (24) synchronizes with the set of fixed points of . Thus, we must show that with the stated conditions, has at least one fixed point in . For it, we shall examine that the conditions of Corollary 6 satisfied. □
Let
. For the multivalued operator
it acts in accordance with the Michael selection result that ∃
such that
This follows that
Thus,
It is an obvious matter to prove that
is closed, and so specific aspects are excluded (see also [
28]). Moreover, since
f is continuous on
and
is continuous on
, their ranges are bounded. It follows that
is also bounded. Hence
We now analyze that (24) holds for
on
with some
and
i.e.,
for
. Let
be arbitrary such that
for
holds. It implies that ∀
∃
such that
for
For all
, it follows from (
) that
This implies that ∃
such that
∀
Now, we can deal with the multivalued mapping
U defined by
Hence, by (
),
U is lower semi-continuous, it implies that ∃
such that
for
Then
satisfies that
That is
and
for all
Hence, we have
Changing the task of
and
, we get
Taking natural log on both sides, we have
Taking
defined by
for
we have
All other conditions of Theorem 6 immediately follow by the hypothesis of taking the function given by and the given integral inclusion (25) has a solution.
5. Conclusions
In this article, we have defined almost -contractions to establish new fixed-point results for a new class of contractive conditions in the context of complete metric spaces. The given results extended and improved the well-known results of Banach, Kannan, Chatterjea, Hardy–Rogers, and Ćirić by means of this new class of contractions. As an application of our main results, the existence of a solution for a certain Fredholm integral inclusion is also investigated. Our results are new and significantly contribute to the existing literature in fixed-point theory.