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In this article, we study coupled coincidence and coupled common fixed point theorems in ordered generalized metric spaces for nonlinear contraction condition related to a pair of altering distance functions. Our results generalize and modify several comparable results in the literature.
2000 MSC: 54H25; 47H10; 54E50.
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1 Introduction
Fixed points of mappings in ordered metric space are of great use in many mathematical problems in applied and pure mathematics. The first result in this direction was obtained by Ran and Reurings [1], in this study the authors presented some applications of their obtained results to matrix equations. In [2, 3], Nieto and López extended the result of Ran and Reurings [1] for non-decreasing mappings and applied their result to get a unique solution for a first order differential equation. While Agarwal et al. [4] and O'Regan and Petrutel [5] studied some results for a generalized contractions in ordered metric spaces. Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham [6] introduced the notion of a coupled fixed point of a mapping F from X × X into X. They established some coupled fixed point results and applied their results to the study of existence and uniqueness of solution for a periodic boundary value problem. Lakshmikantham and Ćirić [7] introduced the concept of coupled coincidence point and proved coupled coincidence and coupled common fixed point results for mappings F from X × X into X and g from X into X satisfying nonlinear contraction in ordered metric space. For the detailed survey on coupled fixed point results in ordered metric spaces, topological spaces, and fuzzy normed spaces, we refer the reader to [6–24].
On the other hand, in [25], Mustafa and Sims introduced a new structure of generalized metric spaces called G-metric spaces. In [26–32], some fixed point theorems for mappings satisfying different contractive conditions in such spaces were obtained. Abbas et al. [33] proved some coupled common fixed point results in two generalized metric spaces. While Shatanawi [34] established some coupled fixed point results in G- metric spaces. Saadati et al. [35] established some fixed point in generalized ordered metric space. Recently, Choudhury and Maity [36] initiated the study of coupled fixed point in generalized ordered metric spaces.
In this article, we derive coupled coincidence and coupled common fixed point theorems in generalized ordered metric spaces for nonlinear contraction condition related to a pair of altering distance functions.
2 Basic concepts
Khan et al. [37] introduced the concept of altering distance function.
Definition 2.1. A function ϕ : [0, + ∞) → [0, + ∞) is called an altering distance function if the following properties are satisfied:
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ϕ is continuous and non-decreasing,
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ϕ (t) = 0 if and only if t = 0.
For more details on the following definitions and results, we refer the reader to Mustafa and Sims [25].
Definition 2.2. Let X be a non-empty set and let G : X × X × X → ℝ+ be a function satisfying the following properties:
(G1) G(x, y, z) = 0 if and only if x = y = z,
(G2) 0 < G(x, x, y) for all x, y ∈ X with x ≠ y,
(G3) G(x, x, y) ≤ G(x, y, z) for all x, y, z ∈ X with z ≠ y,
(G4) G(x, y, z) = G(x, z, y) = G(y, z, x) = ...(: symmetry in all three variables),
(G5) G(x, y, z) ≤ G(x, a, a) + G(a, y, z) for all x, y, z, a ∈ X.
Then the function G is called a generalized metric or, more specifically, a G-metric on X and the pair (X, G) is called a G-metric space.
Definition 2.3. Let (X, G) be a G-metric space and (x n ) be a sequence in X. We say that (x n ) is G-convergent to a point x ∈ X or (x n ) G-converges to x if, for any ε > 0, there exists k ∈ ℕ such that G(x, x n , x m ) < ε for all m, n ≥ k, that is, . In this case, we write x n → x or .
Proposition 2.1. Let (X, G) be a G-metric space. Then the following are equivalent:
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(x n ) is G-convergent to x.
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G(x n , x n , x) → 0 as n → + ∞.
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G(x n , x, x) → 0 as n → + ∞.
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G(x n , x m , x) → 0 as n, m → + ∞.
Definition 2.4. Let (X, G) be a G-metric space and (x n ) be a sequence in X. We say that (x n ) is a G-Cauchy sequence if, for any ε > 0, there exists k ∈ ℕ such that G(x n , x m , x l ) < ε for all n, m, l ≥ k, that is, G(x n , x m , x l ) → 0 as n, m, l → +∞.
Proposition 2.2. Let (X, G) be a G-metric space. Then the following are equivalent:
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The sequence (x n ) is a G-Cauchy sequence.
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For any ε > 0, there exists k ∈ ℕ such that G(x n , x m , x m ) < ε for all n, m ≥ k.
Definition 2.5. Let (X, G) and (X', G') be two G-metric spaces. We say that a function f : (X, G) → (X', G') is G-continuous at a point a ∈ X if and only if, for any ε > 0, there exists δ > 0 such that
A function f is G-continuous on X if and only if it is G-continuous at every point a ∈ X.
Proposition 2.3. Let (X, G) be a G-metric space. Then the function G is jointly continuous in all three of its variables.
We give some examples of G-metric spaces.
Example 2.1. Let (ℝ, d) be the usual metric space. Define a function G s :ℝ × ℝ × ℝ → ℝ by
for all x, y, z ∈ ℝ. Then it is clear that (ℝ, G s ) is a G-metric space.
Example 2.2. Let X = {a, b}. Define a function G: X × X × X ℝ by
and extend G to X × X × X by using the symmetry in the variables. Then it is clear that (X, G) is a G-metric space.
Definition 2.6. A G-metric space (X, G) is said to be G-complete if every G-Cauchy sequence in (X, G) is G-convergent in (X, G).
For more details about the following definitions, we refer the reader to [6, 7].
Definition 2.7. Let X be a non-empty set and F : X × X → X be a given mapping. An element (x, y) ∈ X × X is called a coupled fixed point of F if F(x, y) = x and F(y, x) = y.
Definition 2.8. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set. A mapping F : X × X → X is said to have the mixed monotone property if F(x,y) is monotone non-decreasing in x and is monotone non-increasing in y, that is, for any x, y ∈ X,
and
Lakshmikantham and Ćirić [7] introduced the concept of a g-mixed monotone mapping.
Definition 2.9. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set, F : X × X → X and g : X → X be mappings. The mapping F is said to have the mixed g-monotone property if F(x, y) is monotone g-non-decreasing in x and is monotone g-non-increasing in y, that is, for any x, y ∈ X,
and
Definition 2.10. Let X be a non-empty set, F : X × X → X and g : X → X be mappings. An element (x, y) ∈ X × X is called a coupled coincidence point of F and g if F(x, y) = gx and F(y, x) = gy.
Definition 2.11. Let X be a non-empty set, F : X × X → X and g : X → X be mappings. An element (x, y) ∈ X × X is called a coupled common fixed point of F and g if F(x, y) = gx = x and F(y, x) = gy = y.
Definition 2.12. Let X be a non-empty set, F : X × X → X and g: X → X be mappings. We say that F and g are commutative if g(F(x, y)) = F(gx, gy) for all x, y ∈ X.
Definition 2.13. Let X be a non-empty set, F : X × X → X and g : X → X be mappings. Then F and g are said to be weak* compatible (or w*-compatible) if g(F(x, x)) = F(gx, gx) whenever g(x) = F(x, x).
3 Main results
The following is the first result.
Theorem 3.1. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and (X, G) be a complete G-metric space. Let F : X × X → X and g : X → X be continuous mappings such that F has the mixed g-monotone property and g commutes with F. Assume that there are altering distance functions ψ and ϕ such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with gw ≤ gu ≤ gx and gy ≤ gv ≤ gz. Also, suppose that F(X × X) ⊆ g(X). If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that gx0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ gy0, then F and g have a coupled coincidence point.
Proof. Let x0, y0 ∈ X such that gx0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ gy0. Since we have F(X × X) ⊆ g(X), we can choose x1, y1 ∈ X such that gx1 = F(x0, y0) and gy1 = F(y0, x0). Again, since F(X × X) ⊆ g(X), we can choose x2, y2 ∈ X such that gx 2 = F(x1, y1) and gy2 = F(y1, x1). Since F has the mixed g-monotone property, we have gx0 ≤ gx1 ≤ gx2 and gy2 ≤ gy1 ≤ gy0. Continuing this process, we can construct two sequences (x n ) and (y n ) in X such that
and
If, for some integer n, we have (gxn+ 1, gyn+1) = (gx n , gy n ), then F(x n , y n ) = gx n and F(y n , x n ) = gy n , that is, (x n , y n ) is a coincidence point of F and g. So, from now on, we assume that (gxn+1, gyn+1) ≠ (gx n , gy n ) for all n ∈ ℕ, that is, we assume that either gxn+1≠ gx n or gyn+1≠ gy n .
We complete the proof with the following steps.
Step 1: We show that
For each n ∈ ℕ, using the inequality (1), we obtain
Since ψ is a non-decreasing function, we get
On the other hand, we have
Since ψ is a non-decreasing function, we get
Thus, by (4) and (6), we have
Thus (max{G(gxn- 1, gx n , gx n ), G(gyn- 1, gy n , gy n )}) is a non-negative decreasing sequence. Hence, there exists r ≥ 0 such that
Now, we show that r = 0. Since ϕ : [0, + ∞) → [0, + ∞) is a non-decreasing function, then, for any a, b ∈ [0, + ∞), we have ψ(max{a, b}) = max{ψ(a), ψ(b)}. Thus, by (3)) and (5), we have
Letting n → +∞ in the above inequality and using the continuity of ψ, we get
Hence ϕ(r) = 0. Thus r = 0 and (2) holds.
Step 2: We show that (gx n ) and (gy n ) are G-Cauchy sequences. Assume that (x n ) or (y n ) is not a G-Cauchy sequence, that is,
or
This means that there exists ϵ > 0 for which we can find subsequences of integers (m(k)) and (n(k)) with n(k) > m(k) > k such that
Further, corresponding to m(k) we can choose n(k) in such a way that it is the smallest integer with n(k) > m(k) and satisfying (7). Then we have
Thus, by (G5) and (8), we have
Thus, by (2), we have
Similarly, we have
Thus, by (9) and (10), we have
Using (7), we get
Now, using the inequality (1), we obtain
and
Thus, by (12) and (13), we get
Letting k → +∞ in the above inequality and using (11) and the fact that ψ and ϕ are continuous, we get
Hence ϕ(ϵ) = 0 and so ϵ = 0, which is a contradiction. Therefore, (gx n ) and (gy n ) are G-Cauchy sequences.
Step 3: The existence of a coupled coincidence point. Since (gx n ) and (gy n ) are G-Cauchy sequences in a complete G-metric space (X, G), there exist x, y ∈ X such that (gx n ) and (gyn) are G-convergent to points x and y, respectively, that is,
and
Then, by (14), (15) and the continuity of g, we have
and
Therefore, (g(gx n )) is G-convergent to gx and (g(gy n )) is G-convergent to gy. Since F and g commute, we get
and
Using the continuity of F and letting n → +∞ in (18) and (19), we get gx = F(x, y) and gy = F(y, x). This implies that (x, y) is a coupled coincidence point of F and g. This completes the proof.
Tacking g = I X (: the identity mapping) in Theorem 3.1., we obtain the following coupled fixed point result.
Corollary 3.1. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and (X, G) be a complete G-metric space. Let F : X × X → X be a continuous mapping satisfying the mixed monotone property. Assume that there exist the altering distance functions ψ and ϕ such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with w ≤ u ≤ x and y ≤v ≤ z. If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that x0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ y0, then F has a coupled fixed point.
Now, we derive coupled coincidence point results without the continuity hypothesis of the mappings F, g and the commutativity hypothesis of F, g. However, we consider the additional assumption on the partially ordered set (X, ≤).
We need the following definition.
Definition 3.1. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and G be a G-metric on X. We say that (X, G, ≤) is regular if the following conditions hold:
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if a non-decreasing sequence (x n ) is such that x n → x, then x n ≤ x for all n ∈ ℕ,
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if a non-increasing sequence (y n ) is such that y n → y, then y ≤ y n for all n ∈ ℕ.
The following is the second result.
Theorem 3.2. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and G be a G-metric on × such that (X, G, ≤) is regular. Assume that there exist the altering distance functions ψ, ϕ and mappings F : X × X → X and g: X → X such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with gw ≤ gu ≤ gx and gy ≤ gv ≤ gz. Suppose also that (g(X), G) is G-complete, F has the mixed g-monotone property and F(X × X) ⊆ g(X). If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that gx0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ gy0, then F and g have a coupled coincidence point.
Proof. Following Steps 1 and 2 in the proof of Theorem 3.1., we know that (gx n ) and (gy n ) are G- Cauchy sequences in g(X) with gx n ≤ gxn+1and gy n ≥ gyn+1for all n ∈ ℕ. Since (g(X), G) is G-complete, there exist x, y ∈ X such that gx n → gx and gy n → gy. Since (X, G, ≤) is regular, we have gx n ≤ gx and gy ≤ gy n for all n ∈ ℕ. Thus we have
Letting n → +∞ in the above inequality and using the continuity of ψ and ϕ, we obtain ψ(G(F(x, y),gx, gx)) = 0, which implies that G(F(x, y), gx, gx) = 0. Therefore, F(x, y) = gx.
Similarly, one can show that F(y, x) = gy. Thus (x, y) is a coupled coincidence point of F and g, this completes the proof.
Tacking g = I X in Theorem 3.2., we obtain the following result.
Corollary 3.2. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and G be a G-metric on X such that (X, G, ≤) is regular and (X, G) is G-complete. Assume that there exist the altering distance functions ψ, ϕ and a mapping
F : X × X → X having the mixed monotone property such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with w ≤ u ≤ x and y ≤ v ≤ z. If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that x0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ y0, then F has a coupled fixed point.
Now, we prove the existence and uniqueness theorem of a coupled common fixed point. If (X, ≤) is a partially ordered set, we endow the product set X × X with the partial order defined by
Theorem 3.3. In addition to the hypotheses of Theorem 3.1., suppose that, for any (x, y), (x*, y*) ∈ X × X, there exists (u, v) ∈ X × X such that (F(u, v), F(v, u)) is comparable with (F(x, y), F(y, x)) and (F(x*, y*), F(y*, x*)). Then F and g have a unique coupled common fixed point, that is, there exists a unique (x, y) ∈ X × X such that x = gx = F(x, y) and y = gy = F(y, x).
Proof. From Theorem 3.1., the set of coupled coincidence points is non-empty. We shall show that if (x, y) and (x*, y*) are coupled coincidence points, then
By the assumption, there exists (u, v) ∈ X × X such that (F(u, v), F(v, u)) is comparable to (F(x, y), F(y, x)) and (F(x*, y*), F(y*, x*)). Without the restriction to the generality, we can assume that (F(x, y), F(y, x)) ≤ (F(u, v), F(v, u)) and (F(x*, y*), F(y*, x*)) ≤ (F(u, v), F(v, u)). Put u0 = u, v0 = v and choose u1, v1 ∈ X so that gu1 = F(u0, v0) and gv1 = F(v0, u0). As in the proof of Theorem 3.1., we can inductively define the sequences (u n ) and (v n ) such that
Further, set and, by the same way, define the sequences (x n ), (y n ) and . Since (gx, gy) = (F(x, y), F(y, x)) = (gx1, gy1) and (F(u, v), F(v, u)) = (gu1, gv1) are comparable, gx ≤ gu1 and gv1 ≤ gy. One can show, by induction, that
for all n ∈ ℕ. From (1), we have
and
Hence it follows that
Since ψ is non-decreasing, it follows that (max{G(gx, gx, gu n ),G(gy, gy, gv n )}) is a decreasing sequence.
Hence there exists a non-negative real number r such that
Using (21) and letting n → +∞ in the above inequality, we get
Therefore, ϕ(r) = 0 and hence r = 0. Thus
Similarly, we can show that
Thus, by (G5), (22), and (23), we have, as n → +∞,
and
Hence gx = gx* and gy = gy*. Thus we proved (20).
On the other hand, since gx = F(x, y) and gy = F(y, x), by commutativity of F and g, we have
Denote gx = z and gy = w. Then, from (24), it follows that
Thus (z, w) is a coupled coincidence point. Then, from (20) with x* = z and y* = w, it follows that gz = gx and gw = gy, that is,
Thus, from (25) and (26), we have z = gz = F(z, w) and w = gw = F(w, z). Therefore, (z, w) is a coupled common fixed point of F and g.
To prove the uniqueness of the point (z, w), assume that (s, t) is another coupled common fixed point of F and g. Then we have
Since the pair (s, t) is a coupled coincidence point of F and g, we have gs = gx = z and gt = gy = w. Thus s = gs = gz = z and t = gt = gw = w. Hence, the coupled fixed point is unique. this completes the proof.
Now, we present coupled coincidence and coupled common fixed point results for mappings satisfying contractions of integral type. Denote by Λ the set of functions α : [0, +∞) → [0, + ∞) satisfying the following hypotheses:
(h1) α is a Lebesgue integrable mapping on each compact subset of [0, + ∞),
(h2) for any ε > 0, we have .
Finally, we give the following results.
Theorem 3.4. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and (X, G) be a complete G-metric space. Let F : X × X → X and g : X → X be continuous mappings such that F has the mixed g-monotone property and g commutes with F. Assume that there exist α, β ∈ Λ such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with gw ≤ gu ≤ gx and gy ≤ gv ≤ gz. Also, suppose that F(X × X) ⊆ g(X). If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that gx0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ gy0, then F and g have a coupled coincidence point.
Proof. We consider the functions ψ, ϕ : [0, +∞) → [0, +∞) defined by
for all t ≥ 0. It is clear that ψ and ϕ are altering distance functions. Then the results follow immediately from Theorem 3.1.. This completes the proof.
Corollary 3.3. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and (X, G) be a complete G-metric space. Let F : X × X → X be a continuous mappings satisfying the mixed monotone property. Assume that there exist α, β ∈ Λ such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with w ≤ u ≤ x and y ≤ v ≤ z. If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that x0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ y0, then F has a coupled fixed point.
Proof. Tacking g = I X in Theorem 3.3., we obtain Corollary 3.3..
Putting β(s) = (1 - k)α(s) with k ∈ [0,1) in Theorem 3.3., we obtain the following result.
Corollary 3.4. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and (X, G) be a complete G-metric space. Let F : X × X → X and g: X → X be continuous mappings such that F has the mixed g-monotone property and g commutes with F. Assume that there exist α ∈ Λ and k ∈ [0, 1) such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with gw ≤ gu ≤ gx and gy ≤ gv ≤ gz. Also, suppose that F(X × X) ⊆ g(X).
If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that gx0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ gy0, then F and g have a coupled coincidence point.
Tacking α(s) = 1 in Corollary 3.4., we obtain the following result.
Corollary 3.5. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and (X, G) be a complete G-metric space. Let F : X × X → X and g : X → X be continuous mappings such that F has the mixed g-monotone property and g commutes with F. Assume that there exists k ∈ [0, 1) such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with gw ≤ gu ≤ gx and gy ≤ gv ≤ gz. Also, suppose that F(X × X) ⊆ g(X). If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that gx0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ gy0, then F and g have a coupled coincidence point.
Corollary 3.6. Let (X, ≤) be a partially ordered set and (X, G) be a complete G-metric space. Let F : X × X → X and g : X → X be continuous mappings such that F has the mixed g-monotone property and g commutes with F. Assume that there exist non-negative real numbers a, b with a + b ∈ [0,1) such that
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with gw ≤ gu ≤ gx and gy ≤ gv ≤ gz. Also, suppose that F(X × X) ⊆ g(X). If there exist x0, y0 ∈ X such that gx0 ≤ F(x0, y0) and F(y0, x0) ≤ gy0, then F and g have a coupled coincidence point.
Proof. We have
for all x, y, u, v, w, z ∈ X with gw ≤ gu ≤ gx and gy ≤ gv ≤ gz. Then Corollary 3.6. follows from Corollary 3.5..
Remark 3.1. Note that similar results can be deduced from Theorems 3.2. and 3.3..
Remark 3.2. (1) Theorem 3.1 in [36] is a special case of Theorem 3.1..
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Theorem 3.2 in [36] is a special case of Theorem 3.2..
Example 3.1. Let X = 0,1, 2, 3,... and G : X × X × X → R+ be defined as follows:
Then (X, G) is a complete G-metric space [36]. Let a partial order ≼ on X be defined as follows: For x, y ∈ X, x ≼ y holds if x > y and 3 divides (x - y) and 3 ≼ 1 and 0 ≼ 1 hold. Let F : X × X → X be defined as follows:
Let w ≼ u ≼ x ≼ y ≼ v ≼ z hold, then equivalently, we have w ≥ u ≥ x ≥ y ≥ v ≥ z. Then F(x, y) = F(u, v) = F(w, z) = 1. Let for t ≥ 0 and k ∈ [0,1) and let g(x) = x for x ∈ X. Thus left-hand side of (1) is G(1, 1,1) = 0 and hence (1) is satisfied. Then with x0 = 81 and y0 = 0 the Theorem 3.2. is applicable to this example. It may be observed that in this example the coupled fixed point is not unique. Hence, (0,0) and (1,0) are two coupled fixed point of F.
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YJC was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Grant Number: 2011-0021821).
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Cho, Y.J., Rhoades, B.E., Saadati, R. et al. Nonlinear coupled fixed point theorems in ordered generalized metric spaces with integral type. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2012, 8 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1812-2012-8
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