Solving the Banach fixed point principle for nonlinear contractions in probabilistic metric spaces (Q2654025)

A function \(\varphi :[0,\infty)\rightarrow [0 \infty)\) satisfies the condition (CBW) if \(\varphi(0)=0\), \(\varphi(t)<t\) and \(\lim_{r\rightarrow t+}\inf \varphi (r)<t\) for each \(t>0\). The main theorem of the paper asserts that if \((S,F, \Delta)\) is a complete Menger PM space under a t-norm \(\Delta\) of H-type and \(T:S \rightarrow S\) is a mapping such that, for some \(\varphi\) satisfying (CBW), \(F_{T(p) T(q)}(\varphi(t)) \geq\) \(F_{pq}(t)\) for every \(p, q\in S\) and all \(t>0\), then T has a unique fixed point. Reviewer's comment. We quote from author's abstract: ``The problem to prove the probabilistic versions of the very important generalization of the Banach Contraction Principle, obtained in 1969 by \textit{D.\,W.\thinspace Boyd} and \textit{J.\,S.\,W.\thinspace Wong} [``On nonlinear contractions'', Proc.\ Am.\ Math.\ Soc.\ 20, 458--464 (1969; Zbl 0175.44903)], who proved the fixed point theorem for a self-mapping of a metric space, satisfying the very general nonlinear contractive condition, is unsolved in these days.'' Actually, some results in this direction have been obtained in [\textit{O.\,Hadžić} and \textit{E.\,Pap}, ``New classes of probabilistic contractions and applications to random operators'', in:\ Fixed point theory and applications, Vol.\,4.\ Papers from the 7th international conference on nonlinear functional analysis and applications, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju, Korea and at Kyungnam University, Masan, Korea, August 6--10, 2001.\ Hauppauge, NY:\ Nova Science Publishers, 97--119 (2003; Zbl 1069.54026)].