1. Introduction
Throughout this paper, is an extended b-metric space. We denote by the set of all subsets of U that are non empty and closed, by the set of all subsets of U that are non empty closed and bounded and by the set of all subsets of U that are non empty compacts.
An element is called a fixed point of a multi-valued map if An orbit for a mapping at a point denoted by is a sequence in such that A mapping is said to be F-orbitally lower semi-continuous if for any sequence in and , implies .
Define a function
as
For a constant
, define the set
as
The Pompeiu–Hausdorff distance measuring the distance between the subsets of a metric space was initiated by D. Pompeiu in [
1]. The fixed point theory of set-valued contractions was initiated by Nadler [
2], but later many authors extrapolated it multi directionally (see [
3,
4]).
Theorem 1 (Reich [
5])
. Let be a complete metric space and let . Assume that there exists a map such thatandThen F has a fixed point.
In [
5] Reich raised the question if the above theorem is also true for
. In [
6], Mizoguchi and Takahashi gave supportive solution to the conjecture of [
5] under the hypothesis
In particular, they proved the following result:
Theorem 2 (Mizoguchi, Takahashi [
6])
. Let be a complete metric space and let . Assume that there exists a map such thatandThen F has a fixed point.
In [
7], Feng and Liu extended Nadler’s fixed point theorem, other than the direction of Reich and Takahashi. They proved a theorem as follows:
Theorem 3 (Feng, Liu [
7])
. Let be a complete metric space and let . Assume that:- (i)
The map defined by , , is lower semi-continuous;
- (ii)
There exist , such that for all there exists satisfying
Then F has a fixed point.
Hicks and Rhodes [
8] and Klim and Wardowski [
9] proved the following results:
Theorem 4 ([
8])
. Let be a complete metric space and let , Suppose there exists q such thatThen
- (i)
exists;
- (ii)
;
- (iii)
q is a fixed point of g iff is g-orbitally lower semi-continuous at
Theorem 5 ([
9])
. Let be a complete metric space and let . Assume that the following conditions hold:- (i)
The map defined by , , is lower semi-continuous;
- (ii)
There exists a map such thatand for all there exists satisfyingThen F has a fixed point.
In 2007, Kamran [
10] logically presented Mizoguchi–Takahashi’s type fixed point theorem, that simply generalizes Theorems 4 and 5.
The idea of generalizing metric spaces into
b-metric spaces was initiated from the works of Bakhtin [
11], Bourbaki [
12], and Czerwik [
13,
14]. In [
15], the notion of
b-metric space was generalized further by introducing the concept of extended
b-metric spaces (see also [
16,
17,
18]) as follows:
Definition 1 ([
15])
. Let be a non empty set and A function is called an extended b-metric, if for all it satisfies:- (i)
if and only if
- (ii)
- (iii)
The pair is called an extended b-metric space.
Remark 1 ([
15])
. Every b-metric space is an extended b-metric space with a constant function , for , but its converse is not true in general. Example 1. Let . Define and as follows:for all Then is an extended b-metric space. For more examples and recent results see [
19]. Also, in [
20] Muhammad Usman Ali et al. established fixed point results for new
F-contractions of Hardy–Rogers type in the setting of
b-metric space and proved the existence theorem for Volterra-type integral inclusion. Their results generalized many existence results in the literature. Finally in [
21], authors introduced the notion of a generalized Pompeiu–Hausdorff metric induced by the extended
b-metric as follows:
Definition 2. ([21]) Let be an extended b-metric space, where is bounded. Then for all , where denotes the family of all non empty closed and bounded subsets of , the Hausdorff–Pompieu metric on induced by is defined bywhere for every , and is such that Theorem 6. ([21]) Let be an extended b-metric space. Then is an extended Hausdorff–Pompieu b-metric space. In this paper, we extend Nadler’s fixed point theorem for the extended
b-metric space. Moreover, we improve Mizoguchi–Takahashi’s type fixed point theorem (Theorem 1.2, [
10]) for the extended
b-metric space when
F is a multi-valued mapping from
to
. Our results generalize Theorems 4 and 5 in the setting of extended
b-metric spaces which in turn generalize many existing results including Theorems 1–3.
2. Main Results
We start with the following lemma.
Lemma 1. Let , then for every and there exists such that Proof. By definition of the Hausdorff metric, for
and for any
, we have
By the definition of an infimum, we can let
be a sequence in
such that
We know that
is closed and bounded, so there exists
such that
. Therefore by (
1), we have
☐
Theorem 7. Let be a complete extended b-metric space. If satisfies the inequalitywhere is a real constant such that then F has a fixed point. Proof. Let us consider
Let
and choose
. Since
and
then by Lemma 1, there exists
such that
Now since
and
, there is a point
such that
Continuing in this fashion, we obtain a sequence
of elements of
such that
and
Continuing in this way, we have
By the triangle inequality and (
3) for
we have
Since
, the series
converges by the ratio test for each
Let
and
Thus for
, the above inequality implies
By letting
, we conclude that
is a Cauchy sequence. Since
is complete, there exists
such that
(so
). Now by the triangle inequality
Hence u is a fixed point of ☐
Theorem 8. Let us consider a multi-valued mapping , where is a complete extended b-metric space. Furthermore, let us consider that the following two conditions hold:
- (i)
The map defined by , , is lower semi-continuous;
- (ii)
There exist , such that for all there exists satisfying
Moreover for all . Then F has a fixed point in
Proof. As
for any
,
is non void for any constant
. For some arbitrary point
, there exists
such that
And, for
, there exists
satisfying
Continuing in this fashion, we can get an iterative sequence
, where
and
Now we will prove that
is a Cauchy sequence. On the one hand,
On the other hand,
implies
By the above two equations, we have
By inequality (
5), it is easy to prove that
Let
. Since
we have
. By taking
in (6), we obtain
By the triangle inequality and (
6), for
,
Since
so
Therefore the series
converges by ratio test for all
Let
Thus for
the above inequality implies
By taking , we conclude that is a Cauchy sequence. As is complete, there exists such that
On the other hand as
f is lower semi-continuous, so from (7) we have
Hence . Finally, by the closeness of , we have . ☐
Theorem 9. Let us consider a multi-valued mapping , where is a complete extended b-metric space. Furthermore, let us consider that the following two conditions hold:
- (i)
The map defined by , , is lower semi-continuous;
- (ii)
There exist and such thatand for all , there exists satisfying
Moreover for all . Then F has a fixed point in
Proof. Let us assume that
F has no fixed point, so
for each
. Since
for any
,
is non void for any constant
If
then
, which is a contradiction. Hence for all
and
, there exist
with
such that
Let us take an arbitrary point
. By (
10) and
, there exists
with
, satisfying
and
From (
11) and (
12), we have
Further, for
, there exists
,
, such that
and
By (
13) and (
14), we have
Furthermore from (
12) and (
13)
Continuing in this fashion, for
,
, there exists
,
satisfying
and
From (
15) and (
16), we have
and
From above both equations, it follows that the sequences
and
are decreasing, and hence convergent. Now from (
8), there exists
such that
Therefore for any
, there exists
such that
Consequently from (
15) and (
16), we have
where
and
Furthermore, from (
15)–(
17), for
, we have
Since
, clearly
This gives
Let
, from the triangle inequality and (
19), we have
By using the analogous procedure as in Theorem 8, there exists a Cauchy sequence
such that
,
. As
is complete, therefore there exists
such that
By
, we obtain
By the closedness of , we have , which contradicts our assumption that F has no fixed point. ☐
Corollary 1. Let be a multi-valued mapping, where is a complete extended b-metric space. Furthermore, let us consider that the following conditions hold:
- (i)
The map defined by , , is lower semi-continuous;
- (ii)
There exists such thatand for all , there exists satisfying
Moreover for all . Then F has a fixed point in
Proof. Let us assume that
F has no fixed point, so
for any
. Since
for any
,
is non empty. If
then
, which is a contradiction. Hence for all
, there exists
with
such that
Let us consider an arbitrary point
. From (
20), by using the analogous procedure as in Theorem 9, we obtain the existence of a Cauchy sequence
such that
,
, satisfying
and
Since
is complete, there exists
such that
By (
i), we obtain
By the closedness of , we have , which contradicts our assumption that F has no fixed point. ☐
Lemma 2. Let be an extended b-metric space. Then for any and , there exists an element , where such that Proof. Let us suppose that
then
, since
is a closed subset of
. Further, let us suppose that
, so (
21) holds. Now, suppose that
and choose
Then using the definition of
, there exists
such that
By putting (
22) in (
23), we get
☐
Theorem 10. Let be a complete extended b-metric space and be a multi-valued mapping satisfyingwhere such that Moreover, let us suppose that for all . Then
- (i)
There exists an orbit of F for each such that for ;
- (ii)
u is a fixed point of F, if and only if the function is F-orbitally lower semi-continuous at
Proof. Let us assume
and choose
, since
If
, then
is a fixed point of
Let
, by taking
, it follows from Lemma 2 that there exists
such that
Continuing in this fashion, we produce a sequence
of points in
such that
and
Now assume that
, for otherwise
is fixed point of
Using (
24), it follows from (
26) that
Hence
is a decreasing sequence, so it is converges to some non-negative real number. Let
a be the limit of
. Clearly,
, for otherwise by taking limits in (
27), we obtain
, where
From (
27), we have
From (
25), we can choose
and
such that
Let
N be such that
for
From (
27), we have
Hence from the inequality (
27), we get
Therefore from the triangle inequality and (
28) for any
with
, we have
Since
, the series
converges by the ratio test for each
Let
Thus for
with
, the above inequality implies
By letting
, we conclude that
is a Cauchy sequence in
As
is complete, there exists
such that
Since
, it follows from (
24) that
Letting
, from the above inequality we have
Suppose
is
F orbitally semi-continuous at
u,
Hence , since is closed. Conversely let us suppose that u is a fixed point of F (), then Hence f is F orbitally semi-continuous at ☐
Remark 2. Theorem 10 improves Theorem 1, since F may take values in Since for . We have the following corollary.
Corollary 2. Let be a complete extended b-metric space and be such thatwhere is such that Then
- (i)
there exist an orbit of F for each and such that
- (ii)
u is a fixed point of F, if and only if the function is F-orbitally lower semi-continuous at
Remark 3. Theorem 7 extends Nadler’s fixed point theorem when is the extended b-metric space.
Remark 4. Theorem 8 is a generalization of 7. The following example shows that generalization.
Example 2. Let and be a mapping defined as , for , where is a mapping defined by Then is a complete extended b-metric space. Define as In a sense of Theorem 7, clearly F is not contractive, in fact Hence f is continuous, so it is clearly lower semi-continuous. Furthermore there exists for any such that Thus the existence of a fixed point follows from Theorem 8. Hence Theorem 8 is a generalization of Theorem 7.
Remark 5. Theorem 9 is an extension of Theorem 8. In fact, let us consider a constant map where Thus the hypotheses of Theorem 9 are fulfilled. On the other hand, there exists a map which fulfills the hypotheses of Theorem 9, but does not fulfill the hypotheses of Theorem 8. See the following example:
Example 3. Let and be a mapping defined as , for , where is a mapping defined by Then is a complete extended b-metric space. Let be such that Let and let be of the form Obviously f is a lower semi-continuous. Further, for any and , we haveand Of course these both inequalities hold for and Hence all the hypotheses of Theorem 9 are satisfied and the fixed point of F is Next let us suppose that, if and is such that , then, for , we have and consequently If and is such that , then for , we have . Thus, in the case , we obtainand, in the case , we have Hence hypotheses of Theorem 8 are not fulfilled.
Remark 6. Theorem 10 is an extension of (Theorem 2.1, [10]) for the case when F is a multi-valued mapping from to and hence generalizes Theorems 4 and 5 and also the results of [2,5,7,22].