Abstract and Applied AnalysisVolume 2011 (2011), Article ID 143959, 18 pagesdoi:10.1155/2011/143959

Research Article

Fixed Point Theorems for Nonlinear Contractions in Menger Spaces

Jeong Sheok Ume

Department of Mathematics, Changwon National University, Changwon 641-773, Republic of Korea

Received 14 May 2011; Accepted 24 June 2011

Academic Editor: H. B. Thompson

Copyright © 2011 Jeong Sheok Ume. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new class of Ćirić-type contraction and to present some fixed point theorems for this mapping as well as for Caristi-type contraction. Several examples are given to show that our results are proper extension of many known results.

1. Introduction

Probabilistic metric space has been introduced and studied in 1942 by Menger in USA [1], and since then the theory of probabilistic metric spaces has developed in many directions [2]. The idea of Menger was to use distribution functions instead of nonnegative real numbers as values of the metric. The notion of a probabilistic metric space corresponds to the situation when we do not know exactly the distance between two points, we know only probabilistic of metric spaces to be well adapted for the investigation of physiological thresholds and physical quantities particularly in connections with both string and infinity which were introduced and studied by a well-known scientific hero, El Naschie [3–5].

Ćirić’s fixed point theorem [6] and Caristi’s fixed point theorem [7] have many applications in nonlinear analysis. These theorems are extended by several authors, see [8–16] and the references therein.

In this paper, we introduce a new class of Ćirić-type contraction and present some fixed point theorems for this mapping as well as for Caristi-type contraction. Several examples are given to show that our results are proper extension of many known results.

2. Preliminaries

Throughout this paper, we denote by the set of all positive integers, by the set of all nonnegative integers, by the set of all real numbers, and by the set of all nonnegative real numbers. We shall recall some definitions and lemmas related to Menger space.

Definition 2.1. A mapping is called a distribution if it is nondecreasing left continuous with and . We will denote by the set of all distribution functions. The specific distribution function is defined by

Definition 2.2 (see [17]). Probabilistic metric space (PM-space) is an ordered pair , where is an abstract set of elements, and is defined by , where , where the functions satisfied the following:(a) for all if and only if ; (b); (c); (d) and , then .

Definition 2.3. A mapping is called a -norm if(e) and for all ; (f) for all ; (g) for all with and ; (h) for all .

Definition 2.4. Menger space is a triplet , where is PM space and is a norm such that for all and all ,

Definition 2.5 (see [17]). Let be a Menger space.(1)A sequence in is said to converge to a point in (written as if for every and , there exists a positive integer such that for all .(2)A sequence in is said to be Cauchy if for each and , there is a positive integer such that for all with .(3)A Menger space is said to be complete if every Cauchy sequence in is converged to a point in .

Definition 2.6 (see [18]). -norm is said to be of type if a family of functions is equicontinuous at , that is, for any , there exists , such that and imply . The -norm is a trivial example of -norm of type, but there are -norms of type with -norm (see, e.g., Hadzić [19]).

Definition 2.7. Let be a Menger space, and let be a selfmapping. For each , and , let where it is understood that .A Menger space is said to be orbitally complete if and only if every Cauchy sequence which is contained in for some converges in .

From Definition 2.1 ~  Definition 2.5, we can prove easily the following lemmas.

Lemma 2.8 (see [20]). Let be a metric space, and let be a selfmapping on . Define by for all and , where . Suppose that -norm is defined by for all . Then, (1) is a Menger space; (2)If is orbitally complete, then is orbitally complete. Menger space generated by a metric is called the induced Menger space.

Lemma 2.9. In a Menger space , if for all , then for all .

3. Ćirić-Type Fixed Point Theorems

In 2010, Ćirić proved the following theorem.

Theorem A (see Ćirić [9], 2010). Let be a complete Menger space under a -norm of type. Let be a generalized -probabilistic contraction, that is, for all and , where satisfies the following conditions: , , and for each . Then, has a unique fixed point and converges to for each .

Definition 3.1. Let be a Menger space with for all , and let be a mapping of . We will say that is Ćirić-type-generalized contraction if for all and , where is a mapping and for all and , is the same as in Definition 2.2.It is clear that (*1) implies (*2).

The following example shows that a Ćirić-type-generalized contraction need not be a generalized -probabilistic contraction.

Example 3.2. Let , be defined by , and let be defined by For each , let be defined by for all , where is the same as in Definition 2.1, and is a usual metric on . Then, since for all , we have for all and . Thus, for all and , which satisfies (*2). If and , then and . Thus, , which does not satisfy (*1).

In the next example, we shall show that there exists that does not satisfy (*2) with ,   .

Example 3.3. Let , be defined by and let be defined by , . For each , let be defined by for all , where is the same as in Definition 2.1, and is a usual metric on . If , and , then for simple calculations, and Therefore, for , , and , the mapping does not satisfy (*2). Thus, we showed that there exists that does not satisfy (*2) with ,.

Definition 3.4. Let be a Menger space with for all and let be a self mapping of . We will say that is a mapping of type if there exists such that where is a mapping, and is identity mapping.

The following example shows that has no fixed point, even though satisfies (*2) and (*3).

Example 3.5. Let , be defined by , and let be defined by For each , let be defined by for all , where is the same as in Definition 2.1, and is a usual metric on . Then, since for all , we have for all and . Thus, for all and , which implies (*2). It is easy to see that there exists such that which implies (*3). But has no fixed point.

Remark 3.6. It follows from Example 3.5 that must satisfy (*2), (*3), and other conditions in order to have fixed point of .The following is Ćirić-type fixed point theorem which is generalization of Ćirić’s fixed point theorems [6, 9].

Theorem 3.7. Let be a Menger space with continuous norm and for all , let be a self-mapping on satisfying (*2) and (*3). Let be orbitally complete. Suppose that is a mapping such that (i) for all and , where is identity mapping, (ii) and are strictly increasing and onto mappings, (iii) for each , where is -time repeated composition of with itself. Then, (a) for all , , and , (b) for all , and , (c) is Cauchy sequence for each , where (d) has a unique fixed point in .

Proof. Let , and be arbitrary. By Definition 2.2 and Definition 2.7, clearly, we have which implies (a). From (i), (ii), and (*2), we have By virtue of (i), (ii), (3.8), and (a), we obtain By repeating application of (3.9), we have Since converges to 1 when tends to infinity, it follows that On account of (a) and (3.11), we have for , and , which implies (b). To prove (c), let and be two positive integers with , , and let be any positive real number. By (*2) and (b), we have In terms of (i), (ii), and (3.13), we get By repeating the same method as in (3.13) and (3.14), we have On account of (iii), (*3), (b), (3.15), and Definition 2.2, we have It follows from (3.15) and (3.16) that This implies that is a Cauchy sequence for . This is the proof of (c). Since is orbitally complete, and is a Cauchy sequence for , has a limit in . To prove (d), let us consider the following inequality; Since , from (3.18), we get In terms of (3.19), (i), (ii), (iii), and Definition 2.2, we deduce that , that is, is a fixed point of . To prove uniqueness of a fixed point of , let be another fixed point of . Then . Putting and in (*2), we get which gives . Thus, is a unique fixed point of , which implies (d).

Corollary 3.8 (see [6]). let be a quasicontraction on a metric space , that is, there exists such that Suppose that is orbitally complete. Then, has a unique fixed point in .

Proof. Define by for all and for all and , where and are the same as in Definition 2.1. Let be defined by for all . Let be defined by Then from Lemma 2.8, is a orbitally complete Menger space. It follows from (3.21), Lemma 2.8, Lemma 2.9, and [6, lemma 2] that all conditions of Theorem 3.7 are satisfied. Therefore, has a unique fixed point in .

Now we shall present an example to show that all conditions of Theorem 3.7 are satisfied but condition (3.21) in Corollary 3.8 and condition (*1) in Theorem A are not satisfied.

Example 3.9. Let be the closed interval with the usual metric and and be mappings defined as follows: Define by for all and , where and are the same as in Definition 2.1 and Definition 2.2. Let be defined by for all . Then from Lemma 2.8, is a orbitally complete Menger space, and is continuous function on which satisfy (i), (ii), and (iii). Clearly satisfies (*3). To show that condition (*2) is satisfied, we need to consider several possible cases.

Case 1. Let . Then

Case 2. Let and . Then

Case 3. Let and . Then

Case 4. Let . Then, by simple calculation,

Case 5. Let and . Then Thus,

Case 6. Let . Then, Hence, we obtain where From (3.25) and (3.34), we have for all and , which implies (*2). Therefore, all hypotheses of Example 3.9 satisfy that of Theorem 3.7. Hence, has a unique fixed point 0 in . On the other hand, let be any fixed number. Then, for and with , we have Thus, which shows that does not satisfy (3.21).

Finally, in above Example 3.9, we shall show that does not satisfy (*1). In fact, we need to show that there are and such that . Let , , and Then, ,  , and . Hence, and . Thus, . Therefore, Theorem 3.7 is a proper extension of Theorem A and Corollary 3.8.

4. Caristi-Type Fixed Point Theorems

The following Lemma plays an important role to prove Caristi-type fixed point theorem which is generalization of Caristi’s fixed point theorem [7].

Lemma 4.1. Let be a Menger space with continuous norm and for all , and let be the same as in Definition 2.1. Suppose that and are mappings satisfying the following conditions: (1) for all , (2) is a proper function which is bounded from below, (3)for any sequence in satisfying there exists such that (4)for any with , there exists such that where is the set of all distribution functions, is defined by for all . Then, there exists such that .

Proof. Suppose that For each , let Then, by (4), (4.6), and (4.7) is nonempty for each . From (1) and (4.7), we obtain For each , let Choose with . Then from (4.8) and (4.9), there exists a sequence in such that for all In virtue of (4.7), (4.9), and (4.10), we have for all . In view of (4.11), is a nonincreasing sequence of real numbers, and so it converges to some . Therefore, due to (4.12), Combining (1) and (4.11), we get On account of (4.13) and (4.14), we have Thus, by virtue of (3), (4.13), (4.14), and (4.15), there exists such that Using (4.14), (4.17), and (4.18), we obtain Combining (4.7), (4.9), and (4.19), it follows that and, hence, Taking the limit in inequality (4.20) when tends to infinity, we have In terms of (4.13), (4.17), and (4.21), we deduce that On the other hand, from (4), (4.6), (4.7), and (4.16), we have the following property: In terms of (4.7), (4.8), (4.9), (4.20), and (4.23), we deduce that In view of (4.7), (4.13), (4.22), (4.23), and (4.25), we have Due to (4), (4.22), (4.23), and (4.26), we have the following: By virtue of (4.27), we obtain By repeating the application of inequality (4.28), we get In terms of (4.29), we deduce that converges to 1 as and, hence, From (4.30) and Definition 2.2, we have . This is a contradiction from (4.23). Therefore, there exists such that

Theorem 4.2. Let be a metric space and let , and satisfy conditions (1), (2), and (3) in Lemma 4.1. Suppose that for any with , there exists such that for all and some . Thus, there exists such that

Proof. The proof follows from Lemma 4.1 by considering the induced Menger space , where and

Corollary 4.3 (see [12]). Let be a complete metric space, and let be a proper lower semicontinuous function, bounded from below. Assume that for any with , there exists with and . Then there exists such that .

Proof. Let be a complete metric space, and let ,, , and be mappings such that Then, all conditions of Corollary 4.3 satisfy all conditions of Lemma 4.1. Therefore, result of Corollary 4.3 follows from Lemma 4.1.

The following example shows that Theorem 4.2 is more general than Corollary 4.3.

Example 4.4. Let , and be the same as in Theorem 4.2. Let be the closed interval with the usual metric,  , and let ,  , and be mappings defined as follows: Then, for any with , there exists such that Let be a sequence of such that . Then, clearly conditions (1), (2), (3), and (4) in Lemma 4.1 are satisfied. Thus there exists such that Therefore, all conditions of Theorem 4.2 are satisfied. Since is not lower semicontinuous at , and is not metric, Corollary 4.3 cannot be applicable.

Theorem 4.5. Suppose that condition (4) in Lemma 4.1 is replaced with the following conditions. For self-mapping on , Then, has a fixed point in .

Proof. Suppose for all . Then by Lemma 4.1, there exists such that Since , we have By the same method as in proof of Lemma 4.1, it follows that . But this contradicts our assumption that for all . The proof of Theorem 4.5 is complete.

Theorem 4.6. Let be a metric space, , and let , and be satisfied conditions (1), (2), and (3) in Lemma 4.1. Suppose that Then, has a fixed point in .

Proof. By method similar to Theorem 4.2, the result of Theorem 4.6 follows.

Corollary 4.7 (see [7]). Let be a complete metric space, and let is a proper lower semicontinuous function bounded from below. Let be a mapping from into itself such that Then, has a fixed point in .

Proof. By the same method as in Corollary 4.3, the result of Corollary 4.7 follows.

The following example shows that all conditions of Theorem 4.6 are satisfied but not that of Corollary 4.7.

Example 4.8. Let , and be the same as in Example 4.4. Suppose that and are mappings defined as follows: Then clearly, all conditions of Theorem 4.6 are satisfied but not that of Corollary 4.7, since is not lower semicontinuous at .

Natural question arises from Example 3.5.

Question 1. Whether Theorem 3.7 would remain true if (i), (ii), and (iii) in Theorem 3.7 are substituted by some suitable conditions?

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