Existence and convergence of best proximity points (Q855418)

Let \(A\) and \(B\) be nonempty closed subsets of a complete metric space \((X,d)\) and \(T:A \cup B \to A \cup B\) satisfying \(T(A)\subset B\) and \(T(B) \subset A\). Fixed point theorems for such mappings satisfying cyclic contractive conditions were given by \textit{W. A. Kirk, P. S. Srinivasan} and \textit{P. Veeramani} [Fixed Point Theory 4, No. 1, 79--89 (2003; Zbl 1052.54032)] and \textit{I. A. Rus} [Ann. T. Popoviciu Seminar of Funct. Eq., Approx. and Convexity 3, 171--178 (2005)]. In this paper the authors extend some of the above results to the case when \(A \bigcap B = \emptyset \) and for the best proximity points, i.e., \(x \in A \cup B\) such that \(d(x, T_x) = \text{dist} (A,B)\).