1. Introduction
The fixed point theorem, generally known as the Banach contraction principle, appeared in explicit form in Banach thesis in 1922. Fixed point theory is very famous because of its variety of applications in numerous areas, such as computer science, engineering, economics, etc. The contractive type conditions play an important role in the fixed point theory. Many researchers have extended and generalized this principle because it is the heart of fixed point theory (see, for example, the works of the authors of [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7]).
The complex valued metric spaces is more general than ordinary metric spaces. According to this concept, a number of articles related to fixed point theory and it’s application are presented (see, for example, [
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22]).
The aim of this paper is to prove a fixed point theorem in complex valued metric spaces under contractive condition for single-valued mappings. Moreover, we give a result of existence and uniqueness for solutions of a nonlinear system of integral equations. Finally, we give some explained examples to strengthen our results.
2. Preliminaries and Known Results
This section is prepared to discuss some known notations and definitions that will be used later. Suppose that
is the set of complex numbers and
. Define a partial order ⪯ on
:
So,
if one of the following conditions hold.
Here, we write if and one of conditions , , and is satisfied and if only is satisfied, we write .
Definition 1 ([
8])
. Let . A mapping is said to a complex valued metric on Ω
if the following conditions holds for all and ⇔
Then Ω is called a complex valued metric on Ω and is called a complex valued metric space.
For some examples of complex valued metric spaces see the works by the authors of [
8,
9,
14,
17].
Now, we state two examples not mentioned above.
Example 1. Let be a set of complex number. Define a distance , byfor all where and . Then, is a complex valued metric space provided that is too.
Example 2. Let be a set of complex number. Define the distance bywhere and . Then, is a complex valued metric space.
Definition 2 ([
8])
. Let be a complex valued metric space. Then:(i) A sequence in Ω is said to be converge to if for every there exists such that We denote this by or as
(ii) If for every there exists such that for all , then a sequence is called a Cauchy sequence in Ω.
(iii) If every Cauchy sequence is convergent, then is called a complete complex valued metric space.
Lemma 1 ([
8])
. Let be a sequence in . It is said that converges to κ iff as .
Lemma 2 ([
8])
. Let be a sequence in . It is said that in Ω is a Cauchy sequence if as where 3. Main Result
We introduce our first result.
Theorem 1. Let A and B be self-mappings on a complete complex valued metric space , such that where ,Then there exists a unique common fixed point of the pair mappings Proof. Let
be an arbitrary point. Define a sequence
as follows.
Then, by Equations (
1) and (
2), we get
If
then
Since
and both distances in the left and right-hand sides are identical this equation is not possible unless both distances are zero. So
Similarly, we can obtain that
From Equations (
3) and (
4) for all
, we can write
Therefore,
is a Cauchy sequence in
. Since
is complete, then there exists
, such that
If
A and
B are not continuous, then
unlike that
and one gets
That is, is a contradiction, and hence It follows, similarly, that
If
A and
B are continuous, i.e., the continuity of
A, yields
Similarly, Hence the pair has a common fixed point.
Uniqueness. Suppose that
is a another common fixed point of the nonlinear self-mappings
A and
B. Then,
This implies that , this completes the proof. ☐
The following example support Theorem 1.
Example 3. Let define the distance by It is clear that is a complete complex valued metric space. We define the two self-mappings A and B as Then the contractive condition Equation (1) is satisfied, indeed for and we can write by the simple calculations ofand Therefore, the conditions of Theorem 1 are verified with , and is a unique common fixed point of A and B.
If we take in the above theorem we have the following immediate consequences.
Corollary 1. Suppose that A is a self-mapping on a complete complex valued metric space , such thatfor all where and Then, in a mapping A has a unique fixed point.
To justify the requirements of Corollary 1, we present the following example.
Example 4. Let and be a mapping defined by Clearly is a complete complex valued metric space. Define a self-mapping A by To verify the contractive condition of Corollary 1, we take and one can write by the simple calculations ofand Therefore, all conditions of Corollary 1 are satisfied with and A has a unique fixed point
Corollary 2. Consider is a complete complex valued metric space and , there exists such that where , Then A possesses a unique fixed point.
Proof. By Corollary 1, we obtain
such that
Therefore, the result is follows. ☐
Now we shall give a numerical example to show the validity of Corollary 2.
Example 5. Let , For every we have Thus, for , , all conditions of Corollary 2 are verified, so A has a unique fixed point, which is a unique solution of the nonlinear integral equationor the differential equation (initial value problem) 4. An Application to Urysohn Integral Type Equations
This section is the main result of the paper, here we apply Theorem 1 to find a unique solution of the Urysohn integral type equations
where,
- (i)
and are unknown variables for each ,
- (ii)
is the deterministic free term defined for
- (iii)
and are deterministic kernels defined for
Let
and
defined by
for all
,
It’s obvious that is a complete complex valued metric space.
Next, we consider a system Equation (
5) under the following conditions,
are continuous functions satisfying
where,
Next, we state and prove our main theorem of this section.
Theorem 2. System Equation (5) has a unique common solution provided that the conditions and are satisfied.
Proof. For
and
we define the continuous mappings
by
This gives,
or, equivalently,
or,
So, the condition Equation (
1) of Theorem 1 is satisfied with
Therefore the system Equation (
5) has a unique common solution on
. ☐
Finally, we verify all conditions of Theorem 2 by the following example.
Example 6. Let and the following nonlinear integral equation as the form Problem Equation (6) is a special case of problem Equation (5), where and It’s obvious that is satisfied, for we get Therefore, is hold with and By Theorem 2, the problem Equation (6) has a unique solution.
5. Conclusions
By changing the definition of real valued metric into complex valued metric, complex valued-metric spaces are considered as a generalization of ordinary metric spaces. This change is expected to bring wider applications of fixed point theorems. In this paper, we prove some fixed point theorem in complex valued metric spaces under contractive condition for single-valued mappings. Also, we find a unique solution of a nonlinear system of integral equations and we support our theoretical results by some explained examples.
Author Contributions
H.A.H contributed in conceptualization, investigation, methodology, validation and wrting the original draft; M.D.l.S. contributed in funding adquisition, methodology, project administration, supervision, validation, visualization, writing and editing. Both Aurhors agree and aprove the final version of this manuscript.
Funding
This research received funding from the Basque Government through project IT1207-19.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported in part by the Basque Government through project IT1207-19.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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