Dynamic processes, fixed points, endpoints, asymmetric structures, and investigations related to Caristi, Nadler, and Banach in uniform spaces (Q304972)

This paper further extends a set of results whose ultimate ancestor is Banach's contraction mapping theorem. The metric space is permitted to be a uniform space with symmetric structure defined by families of pseudo-metrics, and the map is permitted to be a set-valued contraction. New and very general results are obtained, and some of the resulting `fixed point' and `endpoint' theorems are used to study dissipative set-valued dynamical systems without lower semi-continuous entropies. Some of the results obtained are new even in the classical settings of metric spaces.