Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique best proximity point for generalized weakly contractive mappings in the context of complete metric spaces.

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Angel Almeida

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

aalmeida@dma.ulpgc.es

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

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

  • Best proximity point; generalized weakly contractive mapping; Fixed point

Mathematics Subject Classification

41A65, 47H10

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Suggested citation

A. Almeida, J. Harjani, K. Sadarangani. “A Best Proximity Point Theorem for Generalized Weakly Contractive Non Self Mappings.” Journal of Convex Analysis 21 (2014), No. 4, 989–1006. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca21053

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