Journal of Function Spaces
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 7205848, 2 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7205848

Editorial

Ulam’s Type Stability and Fixed Points Methods 2016

Janusz Brzdęk,¹ Liviu Cădariu,² Krzysztof Ciepliński,³ Ajda Fošner,⁴ Zbigniew Leśniak,¹ and Bing Xu⁵

¹Department of Mathematics, Pedagogical University, Podchorążych 2, 30–084 Kraków, Poland
²Department of Mathematics, Politehnica University of Timișoara, Piața Victoriei No. 2, 300006 Timișoara, Romania
³Faculty of Applied Mathematics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
⁴Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Cankarjeva 5, 6104 Koper, Slovenia
⁵Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China

Received 17 July 2016; Accepted 17 July 2016

Copyright © 2016 Janusz Brzdęk et al. 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.

The issue of Ulam stability has been a very popular subject of investigation for the last fifty years. It can be expressed shortly in the following way.

When must a function satisfying an equation approximately (in some sense) be closed to an exact solution to the equation?

The first known result of this type comes from a book published in 1925 by G. Pólya and G. Szegö (Aufgaben und Lehrsätze aus der Analysis I, Julius Springer, Berlin) and concerns real sequences. But the main motivation for the systematic study of such problems was given by the following question formulated in 1940 by S. M. Ulam, concerning approximate homomorphisms of groups.

Let be a group and a metric group. Given , does there exist such that if satisfies

for all , then a homomorphism exists with

for all ?

The first partial answer to this question was published in 1941 by D. H. Hyers. The method used by him (quite often called the direct method) has been successfully applied for study of the stability of large variety of equations. Apart from it, there are also other efficient approaches to that type of stability, using different tools. One of such popular techniques is the fixed point method. It seems that it was used for the first time by J. A. Baker who in 1991 published a stability result for a functional equation in a single variable and in the proof he applied a variant of Banach’s fixed point theorem. At present, numerous authors followed that way and this volume is mainly consisting of papers focussing (at least partly) on connections between Ulam stability and fixed point theory.

The volume includes 8 research articles (a survey and 7 research papers) containing the latest achievements. They have been written by 20 authors from 10 countries.

Three papers deal with the stability (also on restricted domains) of functional equations of quadratic, pexiderized quadratic, quartic, and additive-quadratic-cubic-quartic types; in particular, some orthogonal versions are considered. These investigations concern both Banach spaces and -spaces.

One article provides some results on the stability of a first-order impulsive delay ordinary differential equation and a fixed point inclusion.

Another two papers present some fixed point theorems for new types of contractive mappings: one in classical metric spaces and the other in dislocated metric spaces. There is also an article, in which a fixed point theorem is one of the tools that have been used to prove the existence of a generalized homoclinic solution (exponentially approaching a periodic solution) of the Lotka-Volterra system under a small perturbation.

Finally, the volume contains the survey discussing the most significant results concerning approximate derivations (also generalized and/or Lie) as well as the hyperstability and superstability issues connected with them.

Janusz Brzdęk
Liviu Cădariu
Krzysztof Ciepliński
Ajda Fošner
Zbigniew Leśniak
Bing Xu