Vol. 16 (2008)
Articles

A fixed point theorem for contractive closed-valued mappings on metric spaces

Xun Ge
Department of Mathematics, College of Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, 215600, P. R. China.
Jingyu Qian
Department of Mathematics, Yancheng Health Vocational Technical College, Yancheng, Jiangsu, 224000, P. R. China.

Publicado 2025-03-04

Palabras clave

  • fixed point,
  • contractive closed-valued mapping,
  • weak-contractive pseudo-orbit.

Resumen

In this paper, we prove that if \(f\) is a contractive closed-valued mapping on a metric space \((X,d)\) and there exists a weak-contractive pseudo-orbit \(\{x_n\}\) for \(f\) at \(x_0 \in X\) such that both \(\{x_{n_i}\}\) and \(\{x_{n_i+1}\}\) converge for some subsequence \(\{x_{n_i}\}\) of \(\{x_n\}\), then \(f\) has a fixed point, which improves a fixed point theorem for closed-valued mappings by relaxing "contractive orbits" to " weak-contractive pseudo-orbits".