Fixed point theorems for multivalued contractive mappings and multivalued Caristi type mappings in cone metric spaces (Q383090): Difference between revisions

A cone metric is such a function that just replacing the set of real numbers with a Banach space \(E\) with a partial order with respect to a cone in \(E\) in the metric function. The investigation of cone metric spaces goes back to papers published by several Russian authors in the mid-20th century. \textit{B. Rzepecki} [Publ. Inst. Math., Nouv. Sér. 28(42), 179--186 (1980; Zbl 0482.47029)] and \textit{S.-D. Lin} [Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 18, 685--690 (1987; Zbl 0622.47057)] reintroduced such spaces, calling them \(K\)-metric spaces. \textit{I. Beg}, \textit{M. Abbas} and \textit{T. Nazir} [J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 3, No. 1, 21--31 (2010; Zbl 1203.54035)] and \textit{I. Beg}, \textit{A. Azam} and \textit{M. Arshad} [Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2010, Article ID 604084 (2010; Zbl 1197.54057)] replaced the set of an ordered Banach space by a locally convex Hausdorff topological vector space in the definition of a cone metric and a generalized cone metric space. \textit{W.-S. Du} [Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl., Ser. A, Theory Methods 72, No. 5, A, 2259--2261 (2010; Zbl 1205.54040)] obtained a metric \(d_{ p} =\xi_{ e}op\) on a topological vector space valued cone metric space \((X,p)\), where \( \xi_{ e}\) is a nonlinear scalarization function defined as \( \xi_{e} (y)=inf\{r\in\mathbb R:y\in{re-K}\}\), \(y\in Y\), and \(K\) is the pointed convex cone, and proved a theorem which is equivalent to the Banach contraction principle. In the paper under review, the authors prove a fixed-point theorem for multivalued contractive mappings in a complete topological vector space valued cone metric space, and generalize Caristi's fixed-point theorem to the case of multivalued mappings in complete cone metric spaces. Their results are extensions of the results obtained by \textit{Y.-Q. Feng} and \textit{S.-Y. Liu} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 317, No. 1, 103--112 (2006; Zbl 1094.47049)] to the case of topological vector space valued cone metric spaces. Reviewer's remark. The authors neglect some references in which some fixed point theorems were studied in TVS cone metric spaces, such as the above mentioned references of I.\,Beg, A.\,Azam and M.\,Arshad, or the paper of W.-S.\thinspace Du. Note that the reviewer, \textit{A. Sönmez} and \textit{Ç. Genç} [Appl. Math. Lett. 25, No. 3, 429--433 (2012; Zbl 1245.54038); pre-published as: ``Metrizability of topological vector space valued cone metric spaces'', \url{arXiv:1007.3123}] proved that the topology induced by a TVS cone metric coincides with the topology induced by an appropriate metric.