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The authors continue the study recently begun in another paper by investigating the relationship among Ekeland's variational principle, Caristi's fixed point theorem, and a recent existence result by Takahashi. Given a complete metric space \((X,d)\), and \(\phi: X\to ]-\infty,+\infty]\) proper, lower semicontinuous, and bounded from below, the authors examine the interplay between the minimizers of \(\phi\) and the set \(\{x\in X : \phi(y)+\varepsilon d(x,y)>\phi(x)\text{ for all }x\not= y\}\). Actually, they investigate the relationship between the above sets and the set of fixed points of a function satisfying the conditions of Caristi's fixed point theorem. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00093].