Caristi's fixed point theorem and its equivalences in fuzzy metric spaces
In this article, we extend Caristi's fixed point theorem, Ekeland's variational principle and Takahashi's maximization theorem to fuzzy metric spaces in the sense of George and Veeramani [A. George , P. Veeramani, On some results in fuzzy metric spaces, Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 64 (1994) 395-399]. Further, a direct simple proof of the equivalences among these theorems is provided.