Proximal pointwise contraction (Q1032935)

The authors introduce the concept of proximal pointwise contraction and study a best proximity point on a pair of weakly compact convex subsets of a Banach space. Their main result generalizes a fixed point theorem for a pointwise contraction on a weakly compact convex subset of a Banach space due to \textit{W.\,A.\thinspace Kirk} and \textit{H.-K.\thinspace Xu} [``Asymptotic pointwise contractions'', Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl.\ 69, No.\,12 (A), 4706--4712 (2008; Zbl 1172.47038)].