Fixed point of contractive mappings in generalized metric spaces. (English) Zbl 1240.54119

Das, Pratulananda; Dey, Lakshmi Kanta

Math. Slovaca 59, No. 4, 499-504 (2009).

The authors prove the existence of a fixed point for a contractive mapping of Boyd and Wong type acting on a generalized metric space.

Reviewer: Alexander Zaslavski (Haifa)

MSC:

54H25	Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects)
54E40	Special maps on metric spaces

Keywords:

generalized metric space; contractive mapping; fixed point

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