On Mappings With A Contractive Iterate
We introduce and study the concept of characteristic for metrics. It turns out that metrizable spaces endowed with an L*-operator which admit a metric of characteristic zero play an important role in the theory of fixed points. We prove the existence of such spaces among infinite-dimensional linear topological spaces.
J. C. Mathews and D. W. Curtis, [4], have introduced some structures which generalize structures of uniform types to the product of two sets, and they obtain a generalized version of Banach's contraction mapping theorem. In this note we prove that these structures are obtained from the usual analogues by means of a particular bijection; hence we do not have a meaningful generalization. For example, this bijection provides, from a result by A. S. Davies, [1], an analogue of Banach's well-known contraction...