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In this paper we present the notion of F-closed set (which is weaker than the concept of F-invariant set introduced in Samet and Vetro (Ann. Funct. Anal. 1:46-56, 2010), and we prove some coupled fixed point theorems without the condition of mixed monotone property. Furthermore, we interpret the transitive property as a partial preorder and, then, some results in that paper and in Sintunavarat et al. (Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2012:170, 2012) can be reduced to the unidimensional case.
MSC:46T99, 47H10, 47H09, 54H25.
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1 Introduction
One of the very popular tools of a fixed point theory is the Banach contraction principle which first appeared in 1922. It states that if is a complete metric space and is a contraction mapping (i.e., for all , where k is a nonnegative number such that ), then T has a unique fixed point. Several mathematicians have been dedicated to improvement and generalization of this principle. In recent times, one of the most attractive research topics in fixed point theory is to prove the existence of a fixed point on metric spaces endowed with partial orders. An initial result in this direction was given by Turinici [1] in 1986. Following this line of research, Ran and Reurings [2] (and, later, Nieto and Rodríguez-López [3]) used a partial order on the ambient metric space to introduce a slightly different contractivity condition, which must be only verified by comparable points. Thus, they reported two versions of the Banach contraction principle in partially ordered sets and applied them to the study of some applications to matrix equations.
Since then, different extensions to coupled, tripled, quadrupled and multidimensional cases have appeared [4–28]. One of the common properties of all these results is the fact that the mapping must verify the mixed monotone property. Searching for a generalization of this kind of theorems, Samet and Vetro [29] succeeded in proving some results in which the mapping F did not necessarily have the mixed monotone property. To do that, they introduced the notion of F-invariant set. Later, Sintunavarat, Kumam and Cho [30] used this property in order to prove some coupled fixed point theorems for nonlinear contractions without the mixed monotone property.
In this note we observe that the F-invariant property introduced in [29] can be interpreted as a partial preorder and, then, some results in that paper and in [30] can be reduced to the unidimensional case.
2 Preliminaries
Henceforth, let X be a nonempty set. Given a positive integer n, let be the product space . We will use m to denote nonnegative integers. Unless otherwise stated, ‘for all m’ will mean ‘for all ’.
Definition 1 (Roldán et al. [31])
A preorder (or a quasiorder) ≼ on X is a binary relation on X that is reflexive (i.e., for all ) and transitive (if verify and , then ). In such a case, we say that is a preordered space (or a preordered set). If a preorder ≼ is also antisymmetric ( and imply ), then ≼ is called a partial order.
Throughout this manuscript, let be a metric space, and let ≼ be a preorder (or a partial order) on X.
Definition 2 (Roldán [32])
If is a preordered space, a mapping is ≼-nondecreasing if for all such that .
In 2003, Ran and Reurings proved the following version of the Banach theorem applicable to metric spaces endowed with a partial order.
Theorem 3 (Ran and Reurings [2])
Let be an ordered set endowed with a metric d, and let be a given mapping. Suppose that the following conditions hold:
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(a)
is complete.
-
(b)
T is ≼-nondecreasing.
-
(c)
T is continuous.
-
(d)
There exists such that .
-
(e)
There exists a constant such that for all with .
Then T has a fixed point. Moreover, if for all there exists such that and , we obtain uniqueness of the fixed point.
Later, Nieto and Rodríguez-López slightly modified the hypothesis of the previous result swapping condition (c) by the fact that is nondecreasing-regular in the following sense.
Definition 4 We will say that is nondecreasing-regular (respectively, nonincreasing-regular) if any ≼-nondecreasing (respectively, ≼-nonincreasing) sequence d-converges to , we have that (respectively, ) for all m. And is regular if it is both nondecreasing-regular and nonincreasing-regular.
Inspired by Boyd and Wong’s theorem [33], Mukherjea [34] introduced the following kind of control functions:
and proved a version of the following result in which the space is not necessarily endowed with a partial order (but the contractivity condition holds over all pairs of points of the space).
Theorem 5 Let be an ordered set endowed with a metric d, and let be a given mapping. Suppose that the following conditions hold:
-
(a)
is complete.
-
(b)
T is ≼-nondecreasing.
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(c)
Either T is continuous or is nondecreasing-regular.
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(d)
There exists such that .
-
(e)
There exists such that for all with .
Then T has a fixed point. Moreover, if for all there exists such that and , we obtain uniqueness of the fixed point.
Some generalizations of the previous result can be found in Wang [35] (to the multidimensional case), in Romaguera [36] (to partial metric spaces, but not necessarily provided with a partial order) and in Roldán [32].
In order to guarantee the existence and uniqueness of a solution of periodic boundary value problems, Gnana Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham (and, subsequently, Lakshmikantham and Ćirić, see [37]) proved, in 2006, existence and uniqueness of a coupled fixed point (a notion introduced by Guo and Lakshmikantham) in the setting of partially ordered metric spaces by introducing the notion of mixed monotone property.
Definition 6 (Guo and Lakshmikantham [38])
We call an element a coupled fixed point of the mapping if
In order to ensure the existence of coupled fixed points, Gnana Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham introduced the following condition.
Definition 7 (Gnana Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham [39])
Let be a partially ordered set and . We say that F has the mixed monotone property if is monotone nondecreasing in x and is monotone nonincreasing in y, that is, for any ,
Many results were proved to ensure the existence of a coupled fixed point. One of the common properties of all these results is the fact that the mapping must verify the mixed monotone property. Searching for a generalization of this kind of theorems, Samet and Vetro [29] succeeded in proving some results in which the mapping F did not necessarily have the mixed monotone property.
Definition 8 (Samet and Vetro [29])
Let be a metric space and be a given mapping. Let M be a nonempty subset of . We say that M is an F-invariant subset of if, for all ,
-
(i)
;
-
(ii)
.
The following theorem is the main result in [29].
Theorem 9 (Samet and Vetro [29])
Let be a complete metric space, be a continuous mapping and M be a nonempty subset of . We assume that
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(i)
M is F-invariant;
-
(ii)
there exists such that ;
-
(iii)
for all , we have
where α, β, θ, γ, δ are nonnegative constants such that .
Then F has a coupled fixed point, i.e., there exists such that and .
Later, Sintunavarat et al. [30] introduced the notion of transitive property so as to extend the Lakshmikantham and Ćirić’s theorem (see [37]).
Definition 10 (Sintunavarat et al. [30])
Let be a metric space and M be a subset of . We say that M satisfies the transitive property if, for all ,
Then they proved the following result.
Theorem 11 (Sintunavarat et al. [30])
Let be a complete metric space and M be a nonempty subset of . Assume that there is a function with and for each , and also suppose that is a mapping such that
for all . Suppose that either
-
(a)
F is continuous or
-
(b)
if for any two sequences , with ,
for all , then for all .
If there exists such that and M is an F-invariant set which satisfies the transitive property, then there exist such that and , that is, F has a coupled fixed point.
In recent times, it has been proved that many coupled, tripled and quadrupled results can be reduced to the unidimensional case, that is, to Theorems 3 and 5 (see, for instance, Samet et al. [40], Agarwal et al. [41] and Roldán et al. [42]). Furthermore, in some cases, it is not necessary to consider a partial order, but a preorder (see Roldán et al. [31] and Roldán [32]).
In this paper we observe that if is F-invariant and has the transitive property, we could induce a preorder on such that Theorem 11 can be seen as an easy consequence of Theorem 5.
3 Main results
In this section we extend some of the previous results using a weaker notion than F-invariant set. Throughout this section, let X be a nonempty set, let be a mapping, and let M be a subset of .
3.1 F-closed sets and a related fixed point theorem
We extend the notion of F-invariant set as follows.
Definition 12 We say that M is an F-closed subset of if, for all ,
Obviously, every F-invariant set is an F-closed set. In particular, ∅ and are F-closed sets.
Example 13 Let , and let . If we consider the mapping given by for all , then M is F-closed, but it is not F-invariant.
In Lemma 18 we will show some nontrivial examples of F-closed sets. The following result presents a characterization of F-closed sets.
Lemma 14 Let X be a nonempty set, let be a mapping, and let M be a subset of . Define:
Then the following properties hold.
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(1)
is reflexive whatever M.
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(2)
M satisfies the transitive property if and only if is a preorder on .
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(3)
M is F-closed if and only if the mapping is -nondecreasing.
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(4)
If M is F-invariant, then the mapping is -nondecreasing.
Proof (1) is obvious. (2) Suppose that M satisfies the transitive property, and let and . If or , then it is apparent that . In other case, and . Since M satisfies the transitive property, then , which means that is a preorder on . The converse is similar. (3) Suppose that M is F-closed. Let be such that . If , then it is clear that . Now suppose that . Since M is F-closed, we know that , that is, , which means that . Therefore, is -nondecreasing. The converse is similar. (4) It follows from the fact that M is also F-closed. □
Notice that if d is a metric on X, then the mapping , defined by
is a metric on . Furthermore, if is a d-continuous mapping, then , defined as in (2), is -continuous. Thus, the following result reduces a coupled fixed point theorem to a unidimensional case.
Theorem 15 Theorem 11 follows from Theorem 5.
Proof Let , provided with the metric and the preorder . It is clear that is a complete metric space, and Lemma 14 assures us that is -nondecreasing. The condition means that the point verifies . If F is d-continuous, then is -continuous. Taking into account that -converges to if and only if d-converges to x and d-converges to y, it is clear that condition (b) in Theorem 11 implies that is nondecreasing-regular. Finally, suppose that verify and we are going to show that
Indeed, if , there is nothing to prove. Suppose that . In this case, . By (1),
Moreover, by condition (i) in Definition 8, we have
and using (1) again, it follows that
Combining the previous inequalities, we deduce that
Using Theorem 5, we conclude that has a fixed point, that is, F has a coupled fixed point. □
3.2 Fixed point results without the mixed monotone property
In the previous result, M is F-invariant and satisfies the transitive property. Next we show that these conditions are not necessary in order to prove coupled fixed point theorems. Therefore, we can prove some results avoiding such property.
Theorem 16 Let be a complete metric space, let be a continuous mapping, and let M be a subset of . Assume that:
-
(i)
M is F-closed;
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(ii)
there exists such that ;
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(iii)
there exists such that for all , we have
Then F has a coupled fixed point.
Proof Using and by recurrence, define and for all . We claim that for all . Indeed, . Assume that for some . Since M is F-closed,
Applying the contractivity condition to , we deduce that, for all ,
that is,
In other words,
This proves that and are Cauchy sequences in the complete metric space . Therefore, there are such that and . Since F is continuous, , so . Analogously, and is a coupled fixed point of F. □
Example 17 Let provided with the Euclidean metric. Let and consider the mapping given by for all . Then M is an F-closed set but it is not an F-invariant set. Taking into account that, for all ,
and choosing , we conclude that all hypotheses of Theorem 16 are verified. Then F has a coupled fixed point, which is , but Theorem 11 cannot be applied because M is not an F-invariant set.
The previous theorem also holds using a weaker contractivity condition. To introduce it, we need some notation. Given , we will use, for simplicity, the notation
Given a point , let , and for all . We will denote
Lemma 18 Given , the set is F-closed. Indeed, if is an F-closed set verifying , then .
In particular,
Proof Let and define and for all . Let us prove that for all . If , it is obvious. If , then . By recurrence,
Next we claim that is F-closed. Let . Then there exists such that . Therefore
Finally, let be an F-closed set verifying , and we are going to show that . In particular, we will prove that for all by the induction method. Indeed, if , by hypothesis, . Suppose that for some . Since M is F-closed,
Hence,
This completes the induction. Thus, . □
If we particularize Theorem 16 to the F-closed set , we obtain the following result.
Corollary 19 Let be a complete metric space, let be a continuous mapping, and suppose that there exist and such that
for all . Then F has a coupled fixed point.
Notice that in the previous result, we have not necessarily a partial order on X nor a mapping verifying the mixed monotone property.
Theorem 20 Theorem 9 follows from Corollary 19.
Proof Following the proof given in [29], we can consider a constant
and a sequence such that
which is exactly condition (3). Then F has a coupled fixed point. □
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Kutbi, M.A., Roldán, A., Sintunavarat, W. et al. F-closed sets and coupled fixed point theorems without the mixed monotone property. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2013, 330 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1812-2013-330
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