Common fixed points of compatible mappings.
This work is considered as a continuation of [19,20,24]. The concepts of -compatibility and sub-compatibility of Li-Shan [19, 20] between a set-valued mapping and a single-valued mapping are used to establish some common fixed point theorems of Greguš type under a -type contraction on convex metric spaces. Extensions of known results, especially theorems by Fisher and Sessa [11] (Theorem B below) and Jungck [16] are thereby obtained. An example is given to support our extension.
A family f₁,..., fₙ of operators on a complete metric space X is called contractive if there exists a positive λ < 1 such that for any x,y in X we have for some i. Austin conjectured that any commuting contractive family of operators has a common fixed point, and he proved this for the case of two operators. We show that Austin’s conjecture is true for three operators, provided that λ is sufficiently small.