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The Contraction Mapping Theorem is extended to the class of completea-metric spaces. Also, results of Edelstein on local contractions are generalized.
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Sims, B.T. Some generalizations of the contraction mapping theorem. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 21, 64–70 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02844232
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