ABSTRACT
This is a review paper based on a recent article on FG- coupled fixed points [17], in which the authors
established FG- coupled fixed point theorems in partially ordered complete
S∗
metric space. The results
were illustrated by suitable examples, too. An
S∗
metric is an n-tuple metric from n-product of a set
to the non negative reals. The theorems in [17] generalizes the main results of Gnana Bhaskar and
Lakshmikantham [5].
KEYWORDS
FG- Coupled Fixed Point, Mixed Monotone Property, Partially Ordered Set, S∗Metric
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1 INTRODUCTION
In 1906, Maurice Frechet introduced the concept of metric as a generalization of distance. He defined
a metric on a set as a function from the bi-product of the set to the non-negative reals that satisfy
certain axioms. Later, several authors generalized the concept of metrics by either changing the domain
or co-domain of the metric function or by varying the properties of the metric function [3,4,8,11,15,16].
An n-tuple metric called
S∗
metric is the latest development in this direction. Since the existence
of fixed points is depending on the function as well as on its domain, studies started on fixed point
theory by considering those generalized metric spaces. Now a lot of fixed point and coupled fixed point
results are available under different types of metric spaces [2,6,7, 9, 13,14]. In [1] Abdellaoui, M.A. and
Dahmani, Z. introduced
S∗
metric and they have proved fixed point results in
S∗
metric spaces. But
the same concept can be seen in [10], under a different name. In [10] Mujahid Abbas, Bashir Ali, and
Yusuf I Suleiman coined the name A- metric for this concept, and they have proved common coupled
fixed point theorems with an illustrative example.
Recently, the concept of FG- coupled fixed points was introduced as a generalization of the concept of
coupled fixed points in [12]. Some of the famous coupled fixed point theorems are generalized to FG-
coupled fixed point theorems in [12,18, 19].
In [17], the authors established FG- coupled fixed point theorems in the setting of partially ordered
complete S∗metric spaces. This is a review paper of [17].
Some useful definitions and results are as follows:
Definition 1. [1,10] An S∗metric on a nonempty set X is a function
S∗:Xn→[0,∞)satisfying:
(i) S∗(x1,x
2,···,x
n)≥0,
(ii) S∗(x1,x
2,···,x
n)=0if and only if x1=x2=···=xn,
(iii) S∗(x1,x
2,···,x
n)≤S∗(x1,···,x
1,a)+S∗(x2,···,x
2,a)+···+S∗(xn,···,x
n,a)
for any x1,x
2,···,x
n,a∈X. The pair (X, S∗)is called S∗metric space.
Lemma 1. [1,10] Suppose that (X, S∗)is an S∗metric space. Then for all
x1,x
2∈X, we have S∗(x1,x
1,···,x
1,x
2)=S∗(x2,x
2,···,x
2,x
1)
Definition 2. [1, 10] We say that the sequence
{xp}p∈N
of the space X is convergent to
x
if
S∗(xp,x
p,···,x
p,x)→0as p→∞. We write limp→∞ xp=x
Definition 3. [1,10] We say that the sequence
{xp}p∈N
of the space X is of Cauchy if for each
ϵ>
0,
there exist p0∈Nsuch that for any p, q ≥p0,
S∗(xp,···,x
p,x
q)<ϵ
The space (X, S∗)is complete if all its Cauchy sequences are convergent.
Lemma 2. [1,10] Let (
X, S∗
)be an
S∗
metric space. If
{xp}p∈N
in X converges to
x
, then
x
is unique.
Definition 4. [12] Let
X
and
Y
be any two non-empty sets and
F
:
X×Y→X
and
G
:
Y×X→Y
be two mappings. An element (
x, y
)
∈X×Y
is said to be an
FG
- coupled fixed point if
F
(
x, y
)=
x
and G(y, x)=y.
Definition 5. [12] Let (
X, ⪯P1
)and (
Y,⪯P2
)be two partially ordered sets and
F
:
X×Y→X
and
G
:
Y×X→Y
be two mappings. We say that
F
and
G
have mixed monotone property if
F
and
G
are
increasing in first variable and monotone decreasing second variable, i.e., if for all (x, y)∈X×Y,
x1,x
2∈X, x1⪯P1x2implies F(x1,y)⪯P1F(x2,y)and G(y, x2)⪯P2G(y, x1)and
y1,y
2∈Y,y1⪯P2y2implies F(x, y2)⪯P1F(x, y1)and G(y1,x)⪯P2G(y2,x).
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