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A fixed point theorem for set-valued quasi-contractions in b-metric spaces

Hassen Aydi1*, Monica-Felicia Bota2, Erdal Karapınar3 and Slobodanka Mitrović4

Author Affiliations

1 Institut Supérieur d'Informatique et des Technologies de Communication de Hammam Sousse, Université de Sousse, Route GP1-4011, Hammam Sousse, Tunisie

2 Department of Mathematics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Kogălniceanu Street No.1, 400084, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

3 Department of Mathematics, Atılım University, İncek, Ankara 06836, Turkey

4 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of forestry, University of Belgrade, Kneza Viseslava 1, Belgrade, Serbia

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Fixed Point Theory and Applications 2012, 2012:88 doi:10.1186/1687-1812-2012-88

Published: 22 May 2012

Abstract

In this article, we give a fixed point theorem for set-valued quasi-contraction maps in b-metric spaces. This theorem extends, unifies and generalizes several well known comparable results in the existing literature.