A NEW APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF FIXED POINT THEORY FOR EXPANSIVE MAPPINGS

By

Priya Shahi

St. Andrew’s College of Arts, Science and Commerce

St. Domnic Road, Bandra West-400050, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Email:p.shahi@standrewscollege.ac.in

(Received : October 28, 2020; Revised : April 13, 2021)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.58250/Jnanabha.2021.51109

Abstract

Fixed Point Theory has become one of the most beneficial branches of Nonlinear Analysis due to its possible applications. In 2017, Ahmad et al. [Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, 10 (2017), 2350-2358] extended and modified the notion of θ-contraction introduced by Jleli and Samet [Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 38 (2014)] to metric spaces. Also, Khojasteh et al. [Filomat,29 (2015), 1189-1194] introduced the notion of simulation function in order to express different contractivity conditions in a unified way and proved some related fixed point results. To complement these notions, in this paper, we introduce two new types of expansive mappings called θ-expansion and Z-expansion. The related fixed point theorems are also proved. The presented results improve, generalize, and unify many existing famous results in the corresponding literature.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classifications: 54H25, 47H10, 54E50.

Keywords and phrases: Expansive mapping; complete metric space; fixed point; simulation function

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