Preservation of the coincidence point existence property under some discrete transformations of a pair of mappings of metric spaces (Q2424181)

Let \((X,d)\) and \((Y,\rho)\) be metric spaces. As a discrete analog of a homotopy between given mappings \(f,\tilde{f}:X\to Y\), the author suggests a finite ordered set \(\{h_i\}_{0\le i\le n}\) of mappings \(h_i:X\to Y\), with \(h_0=f\) and \(h_n=\tilde{f}\), where the mappings \(h_1,\dots,h_n\) are naturally connected with each other and have certain properties. Let two pairs of mappings \((f,g)\), \((\tilde{f},\tilde{g})\) and two such discrete homotopies \(\{h_i\}\), \(\{\tilde{h}_i\}\) be given, connecting \(f\) with \(\tilde{f}\) and \(g\) with \(\tilde{g}\), respectively. Two versions of sufficient conditions are presented which all the pairs \((h_i,\tilde{h}_i)\), \(i=1,\dots,n\) have to satisfy, in order to provide that the existence of a coincidence point for the initial pair \((f,g)\) implies the existence of coincidence point for the pair \((\tilde{f},\tilde{g})\). In particular, in the case of a pair of self-mappings \(f,Id:X\to X\), the problem is considered of preservation of the fixed point existence property under a discrete analog of a homotopy described above.