Let $K$ be a closed convex subset of a complete convex metric space $X$ and $T,I:K\to K$ two compatible mappings satisfying following contraction definition: $Tx,Ty)\le (Ix,Iy)+(1-a)max\{Ix.Tx),Iy,Ty)\}$ for all $x,y$ in $K$, where $0<a<1/2^{p-1}$ and $p\ge 1$. If $I$ is continuous and $I\left(K\right)$ contains $\left[T\right(K\left)\right]$ , then $T$ and $I$ have a unique common fixed point in $K$ and at this point $T$ is continuous. This result gives affirmative answers to open questions set forth by Diviccaro, Fisher and Sessa in connection with necessarity of hypotheses of linearity and non-expansivity of $I$ in their...

Let $\mathscr{H}$ be a separable infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space, and let $ℒ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ denote the algebra of all bounded linear operators on $\mathscr{H}$ into itself. Let $A=(A_1,A_2,\cdots ,A_n)$, $B=(B_1,B_2,\cdots ,B_n)$ be $n$-tuples of operators in $ℒ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$; we define the elementary operators ${\Delta }_{A,B}ℒ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)\mapsto ℒ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ by ${\Delta }_{A,B}\left(X\right)={\sum }_{i=1}^n{A}_{i}X{B}_i-X.$ In this paper, we characterize the class of pairs of operators $A,B\in ℒ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ satisfying Putnam-Fuglede’s property, i.e, the class of pairs of operators $A,B\in ℒ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ such that ${\sum }_{i=1}^n{B}_{i}T{A}_i=T$ implies ${\sum }_{i=1}^n{A}_i^{*}T{B}_i^{*}=T$ for all $T\in {𝒞}_1\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ (trace class operators). The main result is the equivalence between this property and the...

Let $\parallel ·\parallel$ be a norm on the algebra ${ℳ}_n$ of all $n\times n$ matrices over $ℂ$. An interesting problem in matrix theory is that “Are there two norms ${\parallel ·\parallel }_1$ and ${\parallel ·\parallel }_2$ on ${ℂ}^n$ such that $\parallel A\parallel =max\{\parallel Ax{\parallel }_2\parallel x{\parallel }_1=1\}$ for all $A\in {ℳ}_n$?” We will investigate this problem and its various aspects and will discuss some conditions under which ${\parallel ·\parallel }_1={\parallel ·\parallel }_2$.