International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 30 (2002), Issue 10, Pages 627-635
doi:10.1155/S0161171202007536
Coincidences and fixed points of reciprocally continuous and compatible hybrid maps
1Department of Mathematics, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Hardwar 249404, India
2Department of Mathematics, University of Transkei, Umtata 5100, South Africa
Received 16 February 2001; Revised 27 March 2001
Copyright © 2002 S. L. Singh and S. N. Mishra. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
It is proved that a pair of reciprocally continuous and nonvacuously compatible single-valued and multivalued maps on a metric space possesses a coincidence. Besides addressing two historical problems in fixed point theory, this result is applied to obtain new general coincidence and fixed point theorems for single-valued and multivalued maps on metric spaces under tight minimal conditions.