A generalization of the Banach contraction principle with high order of convergence of successive approximations (Q2372161)

The following generalization of the Banach contraction principle is given. Let \(D\) be a subset of a complete metric space \((X,\,d)\). Let \(T:D\to X\) be a continuous function satisfying \(d(Tx,\,T^2x)\leq \phi(d(x,\,Tx))\) for all \(x\in D\), \(Tx\in D\) with \(d(x,\,Tx)\in J\), where \(J=[0,\,a)\) with \(a>0\) and \(\phi:J\to J\) is a gauge function of order \(r\geq 1\) on \(J\). Suppose additionally that \(x_0\in D\) is an initial point such that \(d(x_0,\,Tx_0)\in J\) and all of the iterates \(x_{n+1}=Tx_n\) (for \(n=0,\,1,\,\dots\)) belong to \(D\). Then the iterative sequence converges to a fixed point of \(T\) with error estimates that are rather complicated. However, this version includes as special cases previous similar results by Mysovskih, Rheinboldt, Gel'man, Huang and others.