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In this survey, we comment on the current status of several questions in Metric Fixed Point Theory which were raised by W. A. Kirk in 1995.
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Domínguez Benavides, T. Some questions in metric fixed point theory, by A. W. Kirk, revisited. Arab. J. Math. 1, 431–438 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40065-012-0038-x
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