Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a fixed point theorem for monotone generalized contractions satisfying a contractive condition of rational type in the context of partially ordered metric spaces. Our results extend other recent results.

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Jackie Harjani

Dep. de Matemáticas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

jharjani@dma.ulpgc.es

Belén López

Dep. de Matemáticas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

blopez@dma.ulpgc.es

Kishin Sadarangani

Dep. de Matemáticas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira Baja, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

ksadaran@dma.ulpgc.es

Keywords

  • Ordered metric spaces
  • altering distance functions
  • monotone generalized mapping
  • coincidence point
  • common fixed point

Mathematics Subject Classification

47H10

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Suggested citation

J. Harjani, B. López, K. Sadarangani. “Common Fixed Point Theorems for Monotone Generalized Contractions Satisfying a Contractive Condition of Rational Type in Ordered Metric Spaces.” Journal of Convex Analysis 20 (2013), No. 4, 919–935. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca20049

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