1. Introduction
In pure mathematics, one of the most well-known and classical theories is fixed point theory, which has vast applications in various fields. The fundamental and inaugural result in the aforementioned theory is the Banach fixed point theorem [
1], which is an attractive and effective tool in investigating existence problems. Over the years, it has been generalized in different directions by several mathematicians. Recently, Samet et al. [
2] initiated the conception of
-admissibility and
-
-contractions in complete metric spaces and presented some fixed point problems for the aforementioned mappings. Subsequently, Salimi et al. [
3] modified these ideas of
-admissibility and
-
-contractions and established new fixed point theorems for such mappings in complete metric space.
In all the above outcomes, the idea of metric space represents a crucial and significant aspect, which was introduced by Frechet [
4] in 1906. Later on, various researchers extended the notion of metric space by considering the metric postulates or changing its range and domain (see [
5,
6,
7,
8]). Jleli et al. [
9] introduced a fascinating generalization of classical metric space,
b-metric space and Branciari metric space, which is well known as an
-metric space. Subsequetly, Hussain et al. [
10] employed the idea of
-metric space (
-MS) and demonstrated a number of results for
-contractions.
We take the distance between members of only one set in all these generalizations of metric space. Thus, a question arises: how can the distance between members of two different sets be analyzed? Such questions of computing the distance can be considered in different fields. Mutlu et al. [
11] presented the idea of bipolar metric space (bip MS) to address such matters. Moreover, this up-to-date conception of bip MS leads to the evolution and advancement of fixed point theorems. In due course, Mutlu et al. [
12] established coupled fixed point results in the framework of bip MS. Kishore et al. [
13] extended the concept of coupled fixed point to common coupled fixed point and presented an application of it. Rao et al. [
14] proved common coupled fixed point results for Geraghty-type contractions and applied their result to homotopy theory. Gürdal et al. [
15] utilized the notion of bip MS to obtain fixed point theorems for (
)-contractions. A significant task relates to the existence of fixed points in the setting of bip MS (see [
16,
17,
18,
19,
20]). Rawat et al. [
21] unified the above two important notions, specifically
-MS and bip MS, and introduced the notion of
-bipolar metric space (
-bip MS) and presented some results.
In the present research article, we introduce the notion of ()-contraction against the background of -bipolar metric space and establish fixed point results for covariant and contravariant mappings. As a consequence, we derive some coupled fixed point results in -bipolar metric spaces. An integral equation is explored as an application of our principal result.
2. Preliminaries
The conventional Banach fixed point theorem [
1] is given in the following way.
Theorem 1 ([
1])
. Let be a complete metric space (CMS) and let . If there exists such thatfor all then has a unique fixed point. Samet et al. [
2] initiated the following concepts.
Definition 1. Let Ψ be a family of mappings satisfying the following conditions:
() ψ is nondecreasing,
(), for all , where is the ı-th iterate of ψ.
Lemma 1. If then, for each and
Definition 2 ([
2])
. Let be any function. A mapping is said to be an α-admissible iffor all Definition 3 ([
2])
. Let be a metric space. A mapping is said to be ()-contraction if there exist some and such thatfor all Jleli et al. [
9] presented an impressive extension of MS as follows.
Let be the class of mappings fulfilling the following assertions:
- ()
for
- ()
for each sequence , ⟺
Definition 4 ([
9])
. Let and let . Assume that there exist such that for all - (i)
,
- (ii)
- (iii)
for every with , we have for and Then, is said to be an - metric on and is said to be an -MS.
Example 1 ([
9])
. Let and Define byand () is an -MS. Mutlu et al. [
11] introduced the idea of bipolar metric space (bip MS) in the following manner.
Definition 5 ([
11])
. Let and and let satisfy- (bi)
,
- (bi)
, if
- (bi)
,
for all Then, the triple is called a bip MS.
Example 2 ([
11])
. Let and be the set of all compact and singleton subsets of independently. Define byfor and and then is a complete bip MS. Definition 6. Let and be two bip MSs. A mapping is said to be a covariant mapping, if and Similarly, a mapping is called a contravariant mapping, if and
We will symbolize the covariant mapping as and the contravariant mapping as .
Rawat et al. [
21] unified the above two novel notions,
-MS and bip MS, and introduced the notion of
-bipolar metric space (
-bip MS) in the following way.
Definition 7 ([
21])
. Let and be nonempty sets and let . Suppose that there exist such that, for all - (D)
,
- (D)
, if
- (D)
for every and with , we havefor and Then, is called an -bip MS.
Example 3. Let and Define byand then satisfies all the conditions of an -bip metric with and for . Thus, is an -bip MS but not a bip MS. Remark 1 ([
21])
. Taking , and in the above definition (7), we obtain a sequence with such that condition (iii) of Definition 4 holds. Thus, every -MS is an -bip MS but the converse is not true in general. Definition 8 ([
21])
. Let be an -bip MS.- (i)
An element is called a left point if and is called a right point if . Moreover, is called a central point if it is both a left and right point.
- (ii)
A sequence () on is said to be a left sequence and ( on is called a right sequence. A left sequence or a right sequence is called a sequence in an -bip MS.
- (iii)
The sequence () converges to a point , if and only if () is a left sequence, is a right point and or () is a right sequence, is a left point and . A bisequence on is a sequence on the set . If () and () are convergent, then the bisequence (,) is also convergent, and if () and () converge to a common element, then the bisequence (,) is said to be biconvergent.
- (iv)
A bisequence in an -bip MS is called a Cauchy bisequence if, for each there exists such that for all
Definition 9 ([
21])
. An -bip MS is said to be complete, if every Cauchy bisequence in is convergent. 3. Fixed Point Results for Covariant Mappings
Definition 10. Let be any function. A mapping is said to be covariant α-admissible iffor all Example 4. Let and and is defined as A covariant mapping defined by is covariant α-admissible.
Definition 11. Let be an -bip MS and is a covariant mapping. A mapping is said to be covariant α-admissible with respect to η if there exist the functions such thatfor all Remark 2. If we take then this Definition 14 reduces to Definition 13. Moreover, if we take , then we can say that is an η-subadmissible mapping.
Definition 12. Let be an -bip MS. A mapping is said to be a covariant ()-contraction if is covariant and there exist two functions and such thatfor all Remark 3. A mapping satisfying the Banach contraction in -bipolar metric space is a covariant ()-contraction withfor all and for some and for - (P)
there exists such that and for all
Theorem 2. Let be a complete -bip MS and let be a covariant ()-contraction. Assume that the following assertions hold:
- (i)
is covariant α-admissible with respect to η,
- (ii)
there exists such that and
- (iii)
is continuous or, if is a bisequence in such that for all with and as for then for all
Then, the mapping has a fixed point. Furthermore, if the property (P) holds, then the fixed point is unique.
Proof. Let
and
be arbitrary points in
and
, respectively, and suppose that
and
Define the bisequence
in
by
for all
As
is a covariant
-admissible mapping with respect to
, we have
which implies
and
which implies
Similarly,
which implies
and
which implies
Continuing in this way, we have
for all
Now, by (
2) and (
3), we have
for all
Additionally,
for all
By (
4) and mathematical induction, we obtain
Similarly, by (
5) and mathematical induction, we obtain
for all
Let
be such that (
) is satisfied. Let
be fixed. By (
), there exists
such that
Let there exist
and
such that
and
Now, for
, by applying (
), we have that
implies
for all
Similarly, for
, by applying (
), we have that
implies
for all
Then, by (
),
for all
Thus,
is a Cauchy bisequence in
As
is complete,
biconverges to a point
Thus,
Moreover, as
is continuous, we obtain
Additionally, since has a limit in . Since the limit is unique in -bip MS, . Thus, has a fixed point.
As a bisequence
in
is such that
for all
with
and
as
for
then, by hypothesis (iii), we have
, for all
Now, by (
19), we have
Taking the limit as and using the continuity of f and at we have Thus, Hence, has a fixed point.
Now, if
is another fixed point of
then
implies that
such that
Then, by the property (P), there exists
such that
Since
is a covariant
-admissible mapping with respect to
, by (
9), we have
for all
Now, by (
) and (
2), we have
Letting
in (
11) and (
12) and using the continuity of
f and
, we have
and
Thus, from (
13) and (
14) by (
), we have
which is a contradiction because the limit is unique. Hence,
□
Example 5. Let and . Define the usual metric , by Then, is a complete -bip MS. Define the covariant mapping by Then, all the conditions of Theorem 2 are satisfied with Hence, by Theorem 2, must have a unique fixed point, which is
By taking in Theorem 2, we have the following result.
Corollary 1. Let be a complete -bip MS and let be a covariant mapping. Assume that there exists and such thatfor all Moreover, suppose that the following postulations hold:
- (i)
is covariant α-admissible,
- (ii)
there exists such that and
- (iii)
is continuous or, if is a bisequence in such that for with and as for then , for
Then, the mapping has a fixed point.
By taking in Theorem 2, we have the following result.
Corollary 2. Let be a complete -bip MS and let be a covariant mapping. Assume that there exists and such thatfor all Moreover, suppose that the following postulations hold:
- (i)
is covariant η-subadmissible,
- (ii)
there exists such that and
- (iii)
is continuous or, if is a bisequence in such that for all with and as for then for all
Then, the mapping has a fixed point.
The following result is a direct consequence of Corollary 1.
Corollary 3. Let be a complete -bip MS and let be a covariant mapping. Assume that there exists and such thatfor all Moreover, suppose that the following postulations hold:
- (i)
is covariant α-admissible,
- (ii)
there exists such that and . Then, the mapping has a fixed point.
- (ii)
is continuous or, if is a bisequence in such that for with and as for then for all
Then, the mapping has a fixed point.
Remark 4. If we define by and where in Corollary 3, then we deduce the principal result of Rawat et al. [21]. Remark 5. Taking for and in Definition 7, then -bip MS is reduced to bip MS. Thus, the main result of Gürdal et al. [15] is a direct consequence of the above result. Remark 6. If we take in Definition 7, then the -bip MS is reduced to -MS and we derive the leading result of Hussain et al. [10] from the above corollary. Corollary 4. Let be a complete -bip MS and let . Assume that there exist , and such thatfor all Moreover, suppose that the following postulations hold:
- (i)
is covariant α-admissible,
- (ii)
there exists such that and
- (iii)
is continuous or, if is a bisequence in such that for all with and as for then for
Then, the mapping has a fixed point.
Proof. Let
Then, by (
15), we have
which implies
and all the conditions of Corollary 1 are satisfied and
has a fixed point. □
Similarly, we have the following corollary.
Corollary 5. Let be a complete -bip MS and let . Assume that there exist , and such thatfor all Moreover, suppose that the following postulations hold:
- (i)
is covariant α-admissible,
- (ii)
there exists such that and
- (iii)
is continuous or, if is a bisequence in such that for with and as for then for
Then, the mapping has a fixed point.
Proof. Let
Then, by (
16), we have
which implies
and all the conditions of Corollary 1 are satisfied and
has a fixed point. □
Corollary 6. Let be a complete -bip MS and let be a covariant and continuous mapping. Assume that there exists such thatfor all Then, the mapping has a unique fixed point.
Proof. Take by for and in Theorem 2. □
Corollary 7. Let be a complete -bip MS and let be a convariant and continuous mapping. Assume that there exists such thatfor all Then, the mapping has a unique fixed point.
Proof. Define by where and by for and in Theorem 2. □
4. Fixed Point Results for Contravariant Mappings
Definition 13. Let be an -bip MS and is a contravariant mapping. A mapping is said to be contravariant α-admissible if there exists a function such thatfor all Example 6. Let and and is defined as A contravariant mapping defined by is contravariant α-admissible.
Definition 14. Let be an -bip MS and is a contravariant mapping. A mapping is said to be contravariant α-admissible with respect to η if there exist two functions such thatfor all Definition 15. Let be an -bip MS. A mapping is said to be a contravariant ()-contraction if is contravariant and there exist some and such thatfor all Remark 7. A mapping satisfying the Banach contraction in a -bip MS is a contravariant ()-contraction withfor all and for some and for Theorem 3. Let be a complete -bip MS and let be a contravariant ()-contraction. Assume that the following postulations hold:
- (i)
is contravariant α-admissible with respect to η,
- (ii)
there exists such that
- (iii)
is continuous or, if is a bisequence in such that for with and as for then for
Then, the mapping has a fixed point. Furthermore, if the property (P) holds, then the fixed point is unique.
Proof. Let
and
be arbitrary points in
and
, respectively, and suppose that
Define the bisequence
in
by
for all
As
is a contravariant
-admissible mapping with respect to
, we have
which implies
and
implies
Similarly,
implies
and
implies
Continuing in this way, we have
for all
Now, by (
19) and (
20), we have
for all
Moreover,
for all
By (
21) and mathematical induction, we obtain
Similarly, by (
22) and mathematical induction, we obtain
for all
Let
be such that (
) is satisfied. Let
be fixed. By (
), there exists
such that
Let there exist
and
such that
and
Now, for
, by applying (
), we have that
implies
for all
Similarly, for
, by applying (
), we have that
implies
for all
Then, by (
),
for all
Thus,
is a Cauchy bisequence in
As
is complete,
biconverges to a point
Thus,
Additionally, since
is continuous, we obtain
Moreover, since
has a limit
in
and the limit is unique,
. Thus,
has a fixed point. Now, since a bisequence
in
is such that
for all
with
and
as
for
then, by hypothesis (iii), we have
for
Now, by (
19), we have
Taking the limit as and using the continuity of f and at we have Thus, Hence, has a fixed point. □
The uniqueness of the fixed point is the same as given in Theorem 2.
7. Conclusions
In this research article, we have defined ()-contractions against the background of -bip MS and established fixed point results. Some coupled fixed point results in -bip MS are also derived as a result of our main theorems. An important example is also provided to validate the authenticity of the established theorems. We have explored the existence and uniqueness of a solution of an integral equation by applying our main result. Additionally, we have explored the unique solution of the homotopy result.
The given results in this research work can be extended to some multivalued mappings and fuzzy mappings in the framework of -bip MS. In addition, a number of common fixed point results for these contractions can be obtained. As applications of these outcomes against the background of -bip MS, some differential and integral inclusions can be explored.