On cone metric spaces: a survey (Q631737)

The article is a very useful survey of different results connected with fixed point theorems in cone metric (\(K\)-metric) spaces \((X,d)\) with cone metric \(d(\cdot,\cdot)\) taking values in a cone \(P\) in a Banach space \(E\). In particular, the authors, in a short and easy way, prove that numerous fixed point results in cone metric spaces obtained under the assumptions that the cone \(P\) is normal and solid, can be reduced to the corresponding results in metric spaces; however, the similar reduction, in the general case when \(P\) is not normal, is not possible (in particular, some assertions of \textit{M. A. Khamsi} [Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2010, Article ID 315398 (2010; Zbl 1194.54065)] are not true).