A short proof of the converse to the contraction principle and some related results

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2000.014MaRDI QIDQ1590134zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Jachymski

Publication date 19 December 2000

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.12775/tmna.2000.014

zbMATH Keywords

Bessaga's theoremconverse to the contraction principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiom of choice and related propositions (03E25) Functional equations for functions with more general domains and/or ranges (39B52) Systems of functional equations and inequalities (39B72) Contraction-type mappings, nonexpansive mappings, (A)-proper mappings, etc. (47H09) Fixed-point theorems (47H10) Fixed-point and coincidence theorems (topological aspects) (54H25)

Review text

This article deals with some reasoning in connection with Bessaga's well-known theorem about the converse to the constraction principle. The author offers a simpler proof of this theorem and gives the following modification: the map \(F\) of an arbitrary set \(\Omega\) into itself is an \(\alpha\)-similarity with respect to some complete metric \(d\) for \(\Omega\) (that means \(d(Fx, Fy)= \alpha d(x,y)\), \((x,y\in\Omega)\), \(\alpha\) is a fixed number from \((0,1)\)) if and only if \(F\) is injective and \(F\) has a unique fixed point. The situations when this result can be proved without the axiom of choice is also described.

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