Fixed point theorems for contractions of rational type with PPF dependence in Banach spaces (Q2249969)

The purpose of this paper is to establish a fixed point theorem for generalized contractions of rational type with PPF dependence. Here, the acronym PPF stands for past, present, and future; meaning that the integral or the differential equations involved depend upon the past history, present data, and future considerations. Let \(E\) be a Banach space, and \(E_0\) be the Banach space of continuous functions from a closed interval \([a,b]\) into \(E\) equipped with the supremum norm. A point \(\phi\in E_0\) is said to be a fixed point (with PPF dependence) of \(T:E_0\to E\) if \(T\phi=\phi(c)\) for some \(c\in [a,b]\). Using the notation \[ R_c=\{\phi\in E_0:\|\phi\|_{E_0}=\|\phi(c)\|_{E}\}, \] \textit{S. R. Bernfeld} et al. [Appl. Anal. 6, 271--280 (1977; Zbl 0375.47027)] proved a PPF dependent fixed point theorem for contraction mappings. Later, \textit{W. Sintunavarat} and \textit{P. Kumam} [``PPF dependent fixed point theorems for rational type contraction mappings in Banach spaces'', J. Nonlinear Anal. Optim. 4, No. 2, 157--162 (2013)] generalized this pioneering result to rational type contraction mappings: If for any \(\phi , \psi \in E_0\), any \(\alpha , \beta \in [0,1)\) with \(\alpha +\beta <1\), and some \(c\in [a,b]\), the mapping \(T\) satisfies \[ \|T\phi -T\psi\| \leq \alpha \|\phi -\psi\| + \beta \frac{\|\phi (c)-T\phi\|\|\psi(c)-T\psi\|}{1+\|T\phi-T\psi\|}, \] then, under some conditions, \(T\) has a unique PPF dependent fixed point in \(R_c\). In this theorem, if we put \(\beta=0\), we get the result of Bernfeld et al [loc. cit.]. In the paper under review, the authors generalize these results a bit further by replacing the constants \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\) by functions satisfying some specific control conditions.