Abstract
In this article, we introduce a new type of contraction and prove certain coincidence point theorems which generalize some known results in this area. As an application, we derive some new fixed point theorems for F-contractions. The article also includes an example which shows the validity of our main result and an application in which we prove an existence and uniqueness of a solution for a general class of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind.
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1 Introduction and preliminaries
The Banach contraction principle [1] is one of the earliest and most important results in fixed point theory. Because of its application in many disciplines such as computer science, chemistry, biology, physics, and many branches of mathematics, a lot of authors have improved, generalized, and extended this classical result in nonlinear analysis; see, e.g., [2–10] and the references therein. In 2012, Azam [3] obtained the existence of a coincidence point of a mapping and a relation under a contractive condition in the context of metric space. For coincidence point results see also [11]. Consistent with Azam, we begin with some basic known definitions and results which will be used in the sequel. Throughout this article, \(\mathbb{N}\), \(\mathbb{R}^{+}\), \(\mathbb{R}\) denote the set of all natural numbers, the set of all positive real numbers, and the set of all real numbers, respectively.
Let A and B be arbitrary nonempty sets. A relation R from A to B is a subset of \(A\times B\) and is denoted \(R:A\rightsquigarrow B\). The statement \(( x,y ) \in R\) is read ‘x is R-related to y’, and is denoted \(xRy\). A relation \(R:A\rightsquigarrow B\) is called left-total if for all \(x\in A\) there exists a \(y\in B\) such that \(xRy\), that is, R is a multivalued function. A relation \(R:A\rightsquigarrow B\) is called right-total if for all \(y\in B\) there exists an \(x\in A\) such that \(xRy\). A relation \(R:A\rightsquigarrow B \) is known as functional, if \(xRy\), \(xRz\) implies that \(y=z\), for \(x\in A \) and \(y,z\in B\). A mapping \(T:A\rightarrow B\) is a relation from A to B which is both functional and left-total.
For \(R:A\rightsquigarrow B\), \(E\subset A \) we define
For convenience, we denote \(R ( \{ x \} ) \) by \(R \{ x \} \). The class of relations from A to B is denoted by \(\mathcal{R} ( A,B )\). Thus the collection \(\mathcal {M} (A,B ) \) of all mappings from A to B is a proper sub-collection of \(\mathcal{R} ( A,B ) \). An element \(w\in A\) is called a coincidence point of \(T:A\rightarrow B\) and \(R:A\rightsquigarrow B \) if \(Tw\in R \{ w \} \). In the following we always suppose that X is a nonempty set and \((Y,d)\) is a metric space. For \(R:X\rightsquigarrow Y \) and \(u,v\in\operatorname{dom} ( R ) \), we define
Wardowski [12] introduced and studied a new contraction called an F-contraction to prove a fixed point result as a generalization of the Banach contraction principle.
Definition 1
Let \(F:\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) be a mapping satisfying the following conditions:
- (F1):
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F is strictly increasing;
- (F2):
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for all sequence \(\{ \alpha_{n}\} \subseteq R^{+}\), \(\lim_{n\to\infty}\alpha_{n}=0\) if and only if \(\lim_{n\to \infty}F(\alpha_{n})=-\infty\);
- (F3):
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there exists \(0< k<1\) such that \(\lim_{n\rightarrow 0^{+}}\alpha^{k}F(\alpha)=0\).
Consistent with Wardowski [12], we denote by Ϝ the set of all functions \(F:\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) satisfying the conditions (F1)-(F3).
Definition 2
[12]
Let \((X,d)\) be a metric space. A self-mapping T on X is called an F-contraction if there exists \(\tau>0\) such that for \(x,y\in X\)
where \(F\in\digamma\).
Theorem 3
[12]
Let \((X,d)\) be a complete metric space and T:\(X\rightarrow X\) be a self-mapping. If there exists \(\tau>0\) such that for all \(x,y\in X\): \(d(Tx,Ty)>0\) implies
where \(F\in\digamma\), then T has a unique fixed point.
Abbas et al. [13] further generalized the concept of an F-contraction and proved certain fixed and common fixed point results. Hussain and Salimi [14] introduced some new type of contractions called α-GF-contractions and established Suzuki-Wardowski type fixed point theorems for such contractions. For more details on F-contractions, we refer the reader to [11, 13–20].
In this paper, we obtain coincidence points of mappings and relations under a new type of contractive condition in a metric space. Moreover, we discuss an illustrative example to highlight the realized improvements.
2 Main results
Now we state and prove the main results of this section.
Theorem 4
Let X be a nonempty set and \((Y,d)\) be a metric space. Let \(T:X\rightarrow Y\), \(R:X\rightsquigarrow Y\) be such that R is left-total, \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\subseteq \operatorname{Range}(R)\) and \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\) or \(\operatorname{Range}(R)\) is complete. If there exist a mapping \(F:\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) and \(\tau>0\) such that
for all \(x,y\in X\), then there exists \(w\in X\) such that \(Tw\in R\{w\}\).
Proof
Let \(x_{0}\in X\) be an arbitrary but fixed element. We define the sequences \(\{x_{n}\} \subset X\) and \(\{y_{n}\} \subset \operatorname{Range}(R)\). Let \(y_{1}=Tx_{0}\), \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\subseteq \operatorname{Range}(R)\). We may choose \(x_{1}\in X\) such that \(x_{1}Ry_{1}\), since R is left-total. Let \(y_{2}=Tx_{1}\), since \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\subseteq \operatorname{Range}(R)\). If \(Tx_{0}=Tx_{1}\), then we have \(x_{1}Ry_{2}\). This implies that \(x_{1}\) is the required point that is \(Tx_{1}\in R\{x_{1}\} \). So we assume that \(Tx_{0}\neq Tx_{1}\), then from (2.1) we get
We may choose \(x_{2}\in X\) such that \(x_{2}Ry_{2}\), since R is left-total. Let \(y_{3}=Tx_{2}\), since \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\subseteq \operatorname{Range}(R)\). If \(Tx_{1}=Tx_{2}\), then we have \(x_{2}Ry_{3}\). This implies that \(Tx_{2}\in R\{x_{2}\}\) and \(x_{2}\) is the coincidence point. So \(Tx_{1}\neq Tx_{2}\), then from (2.1), we get
By induction, we can construct sequences \(\{x_{n}\} \subset X\) and \(\{y_{n}\} \subset \operatorname{Range}(R)\) such that
for all \(n\in \mathbb{N} \). If there exists \(n_{0}\in \mathbb{N} \) for which \(Tx_{n_{0}-1}=Tx_{n_{0}}\). Then \(x_{n_{0}}Ry_{n_{0}+1}\). Thus \(Tx_{n_{0}}\in R\{x_{n_{0}}\}\) and the proof is finished. So we suppose now that \(Tx_{n-1}\neq Tx_{n}\) for every \(n\in \mathbb{N} \). Then from (2.2), (2.3), and (2.4), we deduce that
for all \(n\in \mathbb{N} \). Since \(x_{n}Ry_{n}\) and \(x_{n+1}Ry_{n+1}\), by the definition of D, we get \(D(R\{x_{n-1}\},R\{x_{n}\})\leq d(y_{n-1},y_{n})\). Thus from (2.5), we have
which further implies that
From (2.7), we obtain
Then from (F2), we get
Now from (F3), there exists \(0< k<1\) such that
By (2.7), we have
By taking the limit as \(n\rightarrow\infty\) in (2.11) and applying (2.9) and (2.10), we have
It follows from (2.12) that there exists \(n_{1}\in\mathbb{N}\) such that
for all \(n>n_{1}\). This implies
for all \(n>n_{1}\). Now we prove that \(\{y_{n}\}\) is a Cauchy sequence. For \(m>n>n_{1}\) we have
Since \(0< k<1\), \(\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{i^{1/k}}\) converges. Therefore, \(d(y_{n},y_{m})\rightarrow0\) as \(m,n\rightarrow\infty\). Thus we proved that \(\{y_{n}\}\) is a Cauchy sequence in \(\operatorname{Range}(R)\). Completeness of \(\operatorname{Range}(R)\) ensures that there exists \(z\in \operatorname{Range}(R)\) such that \(y_{n}\rightarrow z\) as \(n\rightarrow\infty\). Now since R is left-total, \(wRz\) for some \(w\in X\). Now
Since \(\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}d(y_{n-1},z)=0\), by (F2), we have \(\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}F(d(y_{n-1},z))=-\infty\). This implies that \(\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}F(d(y_{n},Tw))=-\infty\), which further implies that \(\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}d(y_{n},Tw)=0\). Hence \(d(z,Tw)=0\). It follows that \(z=Tw\). Hence \(Tw\in R\{w\}\). In the case when \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\) is complete. Since \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\subseteq \operatorname{Range}(R)\), there exists an element \(z^{\ast}\in \operatorname{Range}(R)\) such that \(y_{n}\rightarrow z^{\ast}\). The remaining part of the proof is the same as in previous case. □
Example 5
Let \(X=Y=\mathbb{R}\), \(d ( x,y ) =\vert x-y\vert \). Define \(T:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\), \(R:\mathbb {R\rightsquigarrow R}\) as follows:
Then \(\operatorname{Range} ( T ) = \{ 0,1 \} \subset \operatorname{Range} ( R ) = [ 0,4 ] \cup [ 7,9 ] \). Let \(F(t)=\ln(t)\) and \(\tau=1\).
For \(x\in\mathbb{Q}\), \(y\in\mathbb{Q}^{\prime}\) or \(y\in\mathbb{Q}\), \(x\in\mathbb{Q}^{\prime}\), \(d(Tx,Ty)>0\) implies that
Thus all conditions of the above theorem are satisfied and 1 is the coincidence point of T and R.
From Theorem 4 we deduce the following result immediately.
Theorem 6
Let X be a nonempty set and \((Y,d)\) be a metric space. Let \(T,R:X\rightarrow Y\) be two mappings such that \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\subseteq \operatorname{Range}(R)\) and \(\operatorname{Range}(T)\) or \(\operatorname{Range}(R)\) is complete. If there exist a mapping \(F:\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) and \(\tau>0\) such that
for all \(x,y\in X\), then T and R have a coincidence point in X. Moreover, if either T or R is injective, then R and T have a unique coincidence point in X.
Proof
By Theorem 4, we see that there exists \(w\in X\) such that \(Tw=Rw\), where
For uniqueness, assume that \(w_{1},w_{2}\in X\), \(w_{1}\neq w_{2}\), \(Tw_{1}=Rw_{1}\), and \(Tw_{2}=Rw_{2}\). Then \(\tau +F(d(Tw_{1},Tw_{2}))\leq F(d(Rw_{1},Rw_{2}))\) for some \(\tau>0\). If R or T is injective, then
and
a contradiction to the fact that \(\tau>0\). □
Remark 7
If in the above theorem we choose \(X=Y\), \(R=I\) (the identity mapping on X), we obtain Theorem 3, which is Theorem 3.1 of Wardowski [12].
Corollary 8
Let \(T:X\rightarrow Y\), \(R:X\rightsquigarrow Y \) be such that R is left-total, \(\operatorname{Range} ( T ) \subseteq \operatorname{Range} ( R ) \) and \(\operatorname{Range} ( T ) \) or \(\operatorname{Range} ( R ) \) is complete. If there exists \(\lambda\in [ 0,1 ) \) such that for all \(x,y\in X \)
then there exists \(w\in X \) such that \(Tw\in R \{ w \} \).
Proof
Consider the mapping \(F(t)=\ln(t)\), for \(t>0\). Then obviously F satisfies (F1)-(F3). From Theorem 4, we obtain the desired conclusion. □
Corollary 9
Let X be nonempty set and \((Y,d)\) be a metric space. \(T,R:X\rightarrow Y \) be two mappings such that \(\operatorname{Range} ( T ) \subseteq \operatorname{Range} ( R ) \) and \(\operatorname{Range} ( T ) \) or \(\operatorname{Range} ( R ) \) is complete. If there exists a \(\lambda \in [ 0,1 ) \) such that for all \(x,y\in X \)
then R and T have a coincidence point in X. Moreover, if either T or R is injective, then R and T have a unique coincidence point in X.
Proof
Consider the mapping \(F(t)=\ln(t)\), for \(t>0\). Then obviously F satisfies (F1)-(F3). From Theorem 6, we obtain the desired conclusion. □
Remark 10
If in the above corollary we choose \(X=Y\) and \(R=I\) (the identity mapping on X), we obtain the Banach contraction theorem.
In this way, we recall the concept of F-contractions for multivalued mappings and proved Suzuki-type fixed point theorem for such contractions. Nadler [10] invented the concept of a Hausdorff metric H induced by metric d on X as follows:
for every \(A,B\in CB(X)\). He extended the Banach contraction principle to multivalued mappings. Since then many authors have studied fixed points for multivalued mappings. Very recently, Sgroi and Vetro extended the concept of the F-contraction for multivalued mappings (see also [21]).
Theorem 11
Let \((X,d)\) be a metric space and let \(T:X\rightarrow CB(X)\). Assume that there exist a function \(F\in\digamma\) that is continuous from the right and \(\tau\in \mathbb{R} ^{+}\) such that
for all \(x,y\in X\). Then T has a fixed point.
Proof
Let \(x_{0}\in X\) be an arbitrary point of X and choose \(x_{1}\in Tx_{0}\). If \(x_{1}\in Tx_{1}\), then \(x_{1}\) is a fixed point of T and the proof is completed. Assume that \(x_{1}\notin Tx_{1}\), then \(Tx_{0}\neq Tx_{1}\). Now
From the assumption, we have
Since F is continuous from the right, there exists a real number \(h>1\) such that
Now, from
we deduce that there exists \(x_{2}\in Tx_{1}\) such that
Consequently, we get
which implies that
Thus
Continuing in this manner, we can define a sequence \(\{x_{n}\} \subset X\) such that \(x_{n}\notin Tx_{n}\), \(x_{n+1}\in Tx_{n}\) and
for all \(n\in \mathbb{N} \cup\{0\}\). Therefore
for all \(n\in\mathbb{N}\). Since \(F\in\digamma\), by taking the limit as \(n\rightarrow\infty\) in (2.17) we have
Now from (F3), there exists \(0< k<1\) such that
By (2.17), we have
By taking the limit as \(n\rightarrow\infty\) in (2.20) and applying (2.18) and (2.19), we have
It follows from (2.21) that there exists \(n_{1}\in\mathbb{N}\) such that
for all \(n>n_{1}\). This implies
for all \(n>n_{1}\). Now we prove that \(\{x_{n}\}\) is a Cauchy sequence. For \(m>n>n_{1}\) we have
Since \(0< k<1\), \(\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{i^{1/k}}\) converges. Therefore, \(d(x_{n},x_{m})\rightarrow0\) as \(m,n\rightarrow\infty\). Thus \(\{x_{n}\}\) is a Cauchy sequence. Since X is a complete metric space, there exists \(z\in X\) such that such that \(x_{n}\rightarrow z\) as \(n\rightarrow+\infty\). Now, we prove that z is a fixed point of T. If there exists an increasing sequence \(\{n_{k}\} \subset \mathbb{N} \) such that \(x_{n_{k}}\in Tz\) for all \(k\in \mathbb{N} \). Since Tz is closed and \(x_{n}\rightarrow z\) as \(n\rightarrow +\infty\), we get \(z\in Tz\) and the proof is completed. So we can assume that there exists \(n_{0}\in \mathbb{N} \) such that \(x_{n_{0}}\notin Tz\) for all \(n\in \mathbb{N} \) with \(n\geq n_{0}\). This implies that \(Tx_{n-1}\neq Tz\) for all \(n\geq n_{0}\). We first show that
for all \(x\in X\backslash\{z\}\). Since \(x_{n}\rightarrow z\), there exists \(n_{0}\in \mathbb{N} \) such that
for all \(n\in \mathbb{N} \) with \(n\geq n_{0}\). Then we have
Thus, by assumption, we get
Since F is continuous from the right, there exists a real number \(h>1\) such that
Now, from
we obtain
Thus we have
Since F is strictly increasing, we have
Letting n tend to +∞, we obtain
for all \(x\in X\backslash\{z\}\). We next prove that
for all \(x\in X\). Since \(F\in\digamma\), we take \(x\neq z\). Then for every \(n\in \mathbb{N} \), there exists \(y_{n}\in Tx\) such that
So we have
for all \(n\in \mathbb{N} \) and hence \(\frac{1}{2}d(x,Tx)\leq d(x,z)\). Thus by assumption, we get
Thus
Since F is strictly increasing, we have \(d(x_{n+1},Tz)< d(x_{n},z)\). Letting \(n\rightarrow\infty\), we get \(d(z,Tz)\leq0\). Since Tz is closed, we obtain \(z\in Tz\). Thus z is fixed point of T. □
3 Applications
Fixed point theorems for contractive operators in metric spaces are widely investigated and have found various applications in differential and integral equations (see [9, 15, 22, 23] and references therein). In this section we discuss the existence and uniqueness of solution of a general class of the following Volterra type integral equations under various assumptions on the functions involved. Let \(C[0,\Theta]\) denote the space of all continuous functions on \([0,\Theta]\), where \(\Theta>0\) and for an arbitrary \(\|x\|_{\tau}=\sup_{t\in[0,\Theta]}\{ \vert x(t)\vert e^{-\tau t}\}\), where \(\tau>0\) is taken arbitrary. Note that \(\|\cdot\|_{\tau}\) is a norm equivalent to the supremum norm, and \((C([0,\Theta],\mathbb{R}),\|\cdot\|_{\tau})\) endowed with the metric \(d_{\tau}\) defined by
for all \(x,y\in\) \(C([0,\Theta],\mathbb{R})\) is a Banach space; see also [19].
Consider the integral equation
where \(x:[0,\Theta]\rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is unknown, \(g:[0,\Theta]\rightarrow \mathbb{R,} \) and \(h,f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) are given functions. The kernel K of the integral equation is defined on \([0,\Theta]\times[0,\Theta]\).
Theorem 12
Assume that the following conditions are satisfied:
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(i)
\(K:[0,\Theta]\times[0,\Theta]\times \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \), \(g:[0,\Theta]\rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) and \(f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) are continuous,
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(ii)
\(\int_{0}^{t}K(t,s,\cdot):\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is increasing, for all \(t,s\in[0,\Theta]\),
-
(iii)
there exists \(\tau\in(0,+\infty)\) such that
$$ \bigl|K\bigl(t,s,hx(s)\bigr)-K\bigl(t,s,hy(s)\bigr)\bigr| \leq\tau\bigl|hx(s)-hy(s)\bigr| $$for all \(t,s\in[0,\Theta]\) and \(hx,hy\in \mathbb{R} \),
-
(iv)
if f is injective, then for \(\tau>0\) there exists \(e^{-\tau}\in \mathbb{R} ^{+}\) such that for all \(x,y\in \mathbb{R} \);
$$ \vert hx-hy\vert \leq e^{-\tau} \vert fx-fy\vert $$
and \(\{fx:x\in C([0,\Theta],\mathbb{R})\}\) is complete. Then there exists \(w\in C([0,\Theta],\mathbb{R})\) such that for \(x_{0}\in C([0,\Theta],\mathbb{R})\) and \(x_{n}(t)=fx_{n-1}(t)\)
and w is the unique solution of (3.1).
Proof
Let \(X=Y=C([0,\Theta],\mathbb{R}) \) and
for all \(x,y\in X\). Let \(T,R:X\rightarrow X\) be defined as follows:
Then by assumptions \(RX=\{Rx:x\in X\}\) is complete. Let \(x^{\ast}\in TX\), then \(x^{\ast}=Tx\) for \(x\in X\) and \(x^{\ast}(t)=Tx(t)\). By the assumptions there exists \(y\in X\) such that \(Tx(t)=fy(t)\), hence \(RX\subseteq TX\). Since
This implies that
or equivalently
Taking logarithms, we have
After routine calculations, one can easily get
Now, we observe that the function \(F:\mathbb{R}^{+}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) defined by \(F(t)=\ln(t)\) for each \(t\in C([0,\Theta],\mathbb{R})\) and \(\tau>0\) is in Ϝ. Thus all conditions of Theorem 6 are satisfied. Hence, there exists a unique \(w\in X\) such that
for all t, which is the unique solution of (3.1). □
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Hussain, N., Ahmad, J., Ćirić, L. et al. Coincidence point theorems for generalized contractions with application to integral equations. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2015, 78 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13663-015-0331-4
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