1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Banach contraction principle [
1] is a fundamental tool for providing the existence of solutions for many mathematical problems involving differential equations and integral equations. A mapping
on a metric space
is called a contraction mapping, if there exists
such that for all
If the metric space is complete and
T satisfies inequality (1), then
T has a unique fixed point. Clearly, inequality (1) implies continuity of
Naturally, a question arises as to whether we can find contractive conditions which will imply the existence of fixed points in a complete metric space, but will not imply continuity. In [
2], Kannan derived the following result, which answers the said question. Let
be a mapping on a complete metric space
, which satisfies inequality:
where
and
The mapping satisfying inequality (2) is called a Kannan type mapping. There are number of generalizations of the contraction principle of Banach both for single-valued and multi-valued mappings, see ([
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13]). Chatterjea in [
14] established the following alike co ntractive condition. Let
be a complete metric space. A mapping
has a unique fixed point, if it satisfies the following inequality:
where
and
The mapping satisfying inequality (3) is called a Chatterjea type mapping.
Due to the problem of the convergence of measurable functions with respect to a measure, Bakhtin [
15], Bourbaki [
16], and Czerwik [
17,
18] introduced the concept of
b-metric spaces by weakening the triangle inequality of the metric space as follows:
Definition 1 ([
17])
. Let be a set and a real number. A function is called a b-metric space, if it satisfies the following axioms for all - (1)
if and only if
- (2)
- (3)
.
The pair is called a b-metric space.
Clearly, every metric space is a
b-metric space with
, but its converse is not true in general. After that, a number of research papers have been established that generalized the Banach fixed point result in the framework of
b-metric spaces. In [
19], Kir and Kiziltunc introduced the following results, which generalized Kannan and Chatterjea type mappings in
b-metric spaces. Let
be a mapping on a complete
b-metric space
, which satisfies inequality:
where
and
Then
T has a unique fixed point.
Let
be a complete
b-metric space. A mapping
has a unique fixed point in
, if it satisfies the following inequality:
for all
where
In [
20], the given below results, which generalized Equation (4) for
and (5) for
and
, have been derived.
Theorem 1 ([
20])
. Let be a complete b-metric space with constant . If satisfies the inequality:where,then T has a unique fixed point. Theorem 2 ([
20])
. Let be a complete b-metric space with constant . If satisfies the inequality:for all where , then T has a unique fixed point. In [
21], Koleva and Zlatanov proved the following result, which generalizes Chatterjea’s type mappings in
b-metric spaces and do not involve the
b-metric constant.
Theorem 3 ([
21])
. Let be a complete b-metric space and d be a continuous function. If is a Chatterjea’s mapping, i.e., it satisfies inequality (3) such that holds for every Then:- (i)
There exists a unique fixed point of T, say ξ;
- (ii)
For any , the sequence converges to ξ, where ,
- (iii)
There holds the priori error estimate.where
Ilchev and Zlatanov in [
22] proved the following result generalizing Theorem 3 for
Theorem 4 ([
22])
. Let be a complete b-metric space and d be a continuous function. If,- (1)
is a Reich mapping, i.e., there exist , such that so that the inequalityholds for every - (2)
the inequality holds for every
then:
- (i)
There exists a unique fixed point of T, say ξ;
- (ii)
For any , the sequence converges to ξ, where ,
- (iii)
There holds the priori error estimate.
In [
23], the author introduced the following results, which improve Theorems 1 and 2 of [
20].
Theorem 5 ([
23])
. Let be a complete b-metric space with a constant . If satisfies the inequality:where for andthen T has a unique fixed point. Theorem 6 ([
23])
. Let be a complete b-metric space with a constant . If satisfies the inequality:for all where such that then T has a unique fixed point. If
, then
is a metric space and condition (9) implies:
where
With Equation (11), we recover the well-known result for generalized Ciric’s contraction mapping in the metric space and obtain a unique fixed point.
In 1969, Nadler [
24] generalized the single-valued Banach contraction principle into a multi-valued contraction principle. This mapping has been carried out for a complete metric space
by using subsets of
that are nonempty closed and bounded. There are number of generalizations for Nadler’s fixed point theorem (see [
25,
26,
27]). In [
28], the author introduced the given below quasi-contraction mapping and proved an existence and uniqueness fixed point theorem.
A mapping
on a metric space
is called a quasi-contraction, if there exists
such that for all
Amini-Harandi in [
29] introduced the concept of
q-multi-valued quasi-contractions and derived a fixed point theorem, which generalized Ciric’s theorem [
28].
A multi-valued map
on a metric space
is called a
q-multi-valued quasi-contraction, if there exists
such that for all
where
denotes the non-empty closed and bounded subsets of
In [
30], Aydi et al. established the following result, which generalized Theorem 2.2 from [
29] and Ciric’s result [
28].
Theorem 7 ([
30])
. Let be a complete b-metric space. Suppose that T is a q-multi-valued quasi-contraction and , then T has a fixed point in In 2017, Kamran et al. generalized the structure of a
b-metric space and called it, an extended
b-metric space. Thereafter, a number of research articles have appeared, which generalize the contraction principle of Banach in extended
b-metric spaces for both single and multi-valued mappings (see [
31,
32,
33,
34,
35,
36,
37]). In this paper, we illustrate a method (see Lemma 3), to generalize a number of fixed point results of single-valued and multi-valued mappings in the structure of extended
b-metric spaces.
Definition 2 ([
38])
. Let be a nonempty set and A function is called an extended b-metric, if for all , it satisfies: iff
.
The pair is called an extended b-metric space.
Example 1. Let Define by:Then is an extended b-metric space, where is defined by:for all Remark 1. Every b-metric space is an extended b-metric space with constant function , for , but its converse is not true in general.
Definition 3 ([
35])
. Let be an extended b-metric space, where is bounded. Then for all , where denotes the family of all nonempty closed and bounded subsets of , the Hausdorff–Pompieu metric on induced by is defined by:where for every , and is such that: Theorem 8 ([
31])
. Let be an extended b-metric space. Then is an extended Hausdorff–Pompieu b-metric space. Lemma 1 ([
39])
. Every sequence of elements from an extended b-metric space , having the property that for every , there exists such that:where for each , . Then is a Cauchy sequence. Definition 4. Let be any set and be a multi-valued map. For any point , the sequence given by:is called an iterative sequence with initial point 2. Main Results
Definition 5. Let be an extended b-metric space. A function is called continuous, if for every sequence and belongs to and such that , and We have
Definition 6. An extended b-metric space is called ∗-continuous, if for every , and such that . We have
Remark 2. Note that ∗- continuity of is stronger than continuity of in first variable.
Lemma 2. For every sequence of elements from an extended b-metric space , the inequalityis valid for every Proof. From the triangle inequality for
, we haveL
Lemma 3. Every sequence of elements from an extended b-metric space , having the property that there exists such that:for every is Cauchy. Proof. First, by successively applying (
15), we get:
for every
Then by the Lemma 3, for all
, we have:
Now let us take two cases for
- Case 1:
If is finite, let us say then Hence the series is convergent.
- Case 2:
If
is infinite, then
so there exist
such that
, i.e.,
Hence the series
is convergent. In both cases denoting by
S the sum of this series, we come to the conclusion that:
for all
Consequently, as
we conclude that
is a Cauchy sequence. □
Remark 3. Lemma 3 shows that the condition on ϕ in Lemma 1 corresponding to that for each , , can be avoided. Therefore, Lemma 3 generalizes Lemma 1, which is the basis of the results from [36]. Lemma 4. Let , then for every and there exists such that: Proof. By definition of Hausdorff metric, for
and for any
, we have:
By the definition of infimum, we can let
be a sequence in
such that:
We know that
is closed and bounded, so there exists
such that
. Therefore, by (
19), we have:
□
Theorem 9. Let be a complete extended b-metric space with . If satisfies the inequality:where , for and for each ,then T has a fixed point. Proof. Let us choose an arbitrary
and define the iterative sequence
by
for all
If
then
is a fixed point of
T and the proof holds. So we suppose
, ∀
Then from Equation (20), we have:
From the triangle inequality, we get:
By adding Equations (21) and (22), we get:
where,
Since
, multiply by 2,
This implies that:
⇒
Hence from Lemma 3,
is a Cauchy sequence. As
is complete, therefore there exists
such that
Next, we will show that
u is a fixed point of
T. From the triangle inequality and Equation (20), we have:
By adding Equations (24) and (25), we have:
as
This implies that:
Since
, we get
i.e.,
Now, we show that
u is the unique fixed point of
T. Assume that
is another fixed point of
T, then we have
. Also,
This implies that:
As
Therefore
, and
i.e.,
Hence
T has a unique fixed point in
□
Remark 4. From the symmetry of the distance function , it is easy to prove similar to that done in [4,22] that . Thus the inequality (20) is equivalent to the following inequality:where such that
If and in inequality (26), we obtain generalization of Chatterjea’s map [14] in extended b-metric space. Remark 5. Theorem 9 generalizes and improves Theorem 1.5 of [23] and therefore Theorem 2.1 of [20]. Moreover, Theorem 9 generalizes and improves Theorem 3.7 from [40], that is, Theorem 2.19 from [41]. Theorem 10. Let be a complete extended b-metric space with . If satisfies the inequality:for each , where . Moreover for each ,then T has a unique fixed point. Proof. Let us choose an arbitrary
and define the iterative sequence
by
for all
If
then
is a fixed point of
T and the proof holds. So we suppose
, ∀
Then from Equation (27), we have:
This implies that:
where,
Since
, so
, from Lemma 3,
is a Cauchy sequence. As
is complete, therefore there exists
such that
Next, we will show that
u is a fixed point of
T in
From the triangle inequality and Equation (27), we have:
So,
as
Since
, we get
, and so
i.e.,
We will show that
u is the unique fixed point of
T. Assume that
is another fixed point of
T, then we have
. Again,
which is a contradiction. Hence
T has a unique fixed point in
□
Remark 6. Theorem 10 generalizes Theorem 1.2 of [20]. For
and
, we will use the following notation:
Theorem 11. Let be an extended b-metric space. Let be a multi-valued mapping having the property that there exist and such that:
- (i)
For each , , here
- ()
for all
Then for every , there exist and a sequence of iterates from such that for every Proof. Let us choose an arbitrary
and
Consider:
Clearly,
. If
, then for every
, the sequence
given by
satisfies Equation(
29). Since:
there exists
such that
If
, then for every
,
, the sequence
given by
satisfies Equation (
29). By repeating this process, we obtain a sequence
of elements from
such that
and
for every
,
Then we have:
for every
If we take:
then from Equations (30) and (31),
As
, so we obtain the contradiction. Therefore, we have:
Consequently,
or
This implies that
or
for every
Thus,
i.e.,
Thus, the sequence
satisfies Equation(
29). Hence from Lemma 3, we conclude that
is Cauchy sequence. □
Theorem 12. Let be a complete extended b-metric space. Let be a multi-valued mapping having the property that there exist and such that:
- (i)
For each , , here
- ()
for all
- ()
T is continuous.
Then T has a fixed point in
Proof. From Theorem 11, by taking in account condition
and
, we conclude that
is a Cauchy sequence such that:
for every
As
is complete, so there exists
such that
From inequality (3), by the continuity of
T, it follows that:
Therefore, Hence T has a fixed point in □
Theorem 13. Let be a complete extended b-metric space. Let be a multi-valued mapping having the property that there exist and such that:
- (i)
For each , here
- ()
for all
- ()
T is ∗-continuous.
Then T has a fixed point in □
Proof. From Theorem 3, by taking in account condition
and
, we conclude that
is a Cauchy sequence such that:
for every
As
is complete, so there exists
such that
Then we have:
for every
Since
,
. Then
. Therefore, by taking limit
in Equations (34) and (35), we obtain:
As so from above inequality which is impossible, therefore i.e., . Hence T has a fixed point in □
Theorem 14. A multi-valued mapping has a fixed point in a complete extended b-metric space , if it satisfies the following two axioms:
- (i)
There exist and such that for all
- ()
For each , here
Proof. From Theorem 11, by taking in account condition
and
, we conclude that
is a Cauchy sequence such that:
for every
As
is complete, so there exists
such that
Then for every
, we have:
Now, we will take two cases:
- Case (i):
If
then there exists a subsequence
of
such that
so for each
, ∃
such that for every
,
, we have:
Since
,
. Therefore, by taking limit
in Equations (39) and (40), we obtain:
for every
Thus,
As so from above inequality which is impossible, therefore , i.e., . Hence T has a fixed point in
- Case (ii):
If
then there exists
such that for every
, we have
From the triangle inequality,
, we obtain:
Since
,
. Therefore by taking limit
in Equations (41) and (42), we obtain:
from condition
, since
so from Equation (43),
which is impossible, therefore
, i.e.,
. Hence
T has a fixed point in
□
Remark 7. - (i)
For in Theorem 12, we obtain Nadler’s contraction principle for multi valued-mappings, i.e., Theorem 5 from [24]. - (ii)
Theorem 14 generalizes Theorems 12 and 13;
- (ii)
Theorem 14 generalizes Theorem 3.3 from [42], which generalizes Theorem 7 of [30]. Also, Theorem 7, which is a generalization of Theorem 2.2 from [29], improves Theorem 3.3 from [43], Corollary 3.3 from [5], and Theorem 1 from [28].
Example 2. Let , , for , where define by Then is a complete extended b-metric space. Define mapping as Hence T is continuous. Since for all , we get:where . Also for each , . Clearly, it satisfies all the conditions of Theorem 12, and so there exists a fixed point. Example 3. Let . Define , for , where , where Then is a complete extended b-metric space. Define mapping as for every Note that Theorem 14 is applicable by taking and