International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 9 (1986), Issue 2, Pages 323-329
doi:10.1155/S0161171286000406
On common fixed points of weakly commuting mappings and
set-valued mappings
1Istituto di Matematica, Facolta di Architettura, Universita di Napoli, Via Monteoliveto 3, Napoli 80134, Italy
2Department of Mathematics, The University, Leicester, UK
Received 7 September 1984
Copyright © 1986 S. Sessa and B. Fisher. 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
Our main theorem establishes the uniqueness of the common fixed point of two set-valued mappings and of two single-valued mappings defined on a complete metric space,
under a contractive condition and a weak commutativity concept. This improves a theorem
of the second author.