1. Introduction
It is often recognized that one of the most significant and alluring findings in non-linear analysis and mathematical analysis in general is the ”Banach Contraction Principle” [
1]. Furthermore, fixed point theory is an important topic in many disciplines, including economics, physics, informatics, differential equations, geometry, and engineering, among others. Many researchers have extended and generalized the ”Banach Contraction Principle” since its introduction, and mathematicians have been eager to advance it in various directions due to this noteworthy result (see, for instance, [
2,
3,
4,
5,
6]).
As a generalization of the ”Banach Contraction Principle”, Wardowski [
2] developed a new contractive mapping in 2012: the so-called
F-contraction and obtained a new fixed point result. Consequently, Altun et al. [
7] presented an interesting idea of multi-valued
F-contraction mappings along with a few fixed point outcomes. In addition to obtaining certain fixed point findings, Wardowski and Dung [
8] extended the idea of an
F-contraction to an
F-weak contraction and generalized the results in [
2]. By presenting the idea of an
F-Suzuki contraction, Piri and Kumam [
10] extended the findings of Wardowski [
2] in 2014 and produced some fascinating fixed point results. Also, Minak et al. [
3], built on the discoveries of Wardowski [
2] in 2014 by establishing the concept of an almost
F-contraction and generated a few intriguing fixed point findings.
By outlining the concept of
F-contraction of
-type in 2016, Gopal et al. [
11] made it more general. In the same year, 2016, Budhia et al. [
12] established several fixed point theorems for such contractions and presented the new ideas of an
-type almost-
F-contraction and an
-type
F-Suzuki contraction in metric spaces. Chandok, Huaping Huang and Stojan Radenovic [
13] examined some fixed point results for the generalized
F-Suzuki type contractions in the setting of
b-metric Spaces in 2018, extending the work of Piri and Kumam [
10]. Furthermore, in 2019, Taheri A. and Farajzadeh A.P. [
14] obtained a new result on a new generalization on metric spaces of
-type
F-Suzuki contractions and
-type almost-
F-contractions. Motivated by the works discussed above, we extended on the findings of [
11] and some results of [
12] and [
14] in this line of inquiry by presenting new type of contractions: an
-type
F-Suzuki contraction and
-type
F-weak-Suzuki contraction in the setting of
b-metric spaces. We also proved some fixed point theorems pertaining to these contractions. Additionally, an example and an application to a non-linear differential equation of fractional order are given to illustrate the applicability of our obtained results.
2. Preliminaries
This section aims to recall various concepts as well as results used in this paper. Throughout this work, , , , , and denote the set of all non-negative integers, natural numbers, positive real numbers, non-negative real numbers, real numbers and the set of all fixed points of a self-mapping T on a non-empty set X, respectively.
Definition 2.1. [
2] Suppose
be a mapping that satisfies:
F is non-decreasing, meaning, for all , implies ;
For any sequence in , if and only if ;
There exists a constant , such that .
The family of all functions F satisfying the conditions - is denoted by .
Example 2.2. [
12] Consider the following functions
:
,
,
.
Clearly , and pertains to .
Definition 2.3. [
2] Let
be a metric space. A self-mapping
is called an
F-contraction on
if there exist
and
such that for all
,
Wardowski [
2] developed a new generalization of the ”Banach Contraction Principle” in 2012. It goes as follows:
Theorem 2.1. [2] Let be a metric space which is complete and let a self-mapping be an F-contraction. Then T has a unique fixed point and for all , the sequence converges to .
Wardowski and Dung [
8] obtained a new fixed point result in 2014 by defining the concept of an
F-weak contraction on metric spaces and offered as:
Definition 2.4. [
8] Let
be a metric space. A self-mapping
is said to be an
F-weak contraction on
if there exist
and
such that for all
,
where
.
Theorem 2.2. [8] Let be a complete metric space and let a self-mapping be an F-weak contraction. If T or F is continuous, then T has a unique fixed point and for every the sequence converges to .
Given a self-mapping
T on a metric space
, we know that a contraction condition for the mapping typically comprises at most five values:
,
,
,
and
(see, for instance, [
15,
16]). Fixed point theorems were recently proved by Dung and Hang [
9] by supplementing a contraction condition with the following four additional values:
,
,
, and
. They provided examples to show that their findings are valid generalization of those that are already well-known in the existing literature.
Piri and Kumam [
10] in 2014 replaced the condition of
in the definition of an
F-contraction by the following one:
They represented, using
, the family of all functions
that fulfills the conditions
,
, and
). As of 2013, Secelean [
6] represented the family of all functions
that satisfy the conditions
,
), and
) by
. Where,
Definition 2.5. [
10] Let
be a metric space. A self-mapping
is said to be an
F-Suzuki contraction if there exists
, such that for all
with
,
where
.
Theorem 2.3. [10] Let be a complete metric space and a self-mapping be an F-Suzuki contraction. Then T has a unique fixed point and for all , the sequence converges to .
Definition 2.6. [
5] For a non-empty set
X, let
be a self-mapping and
be a given mapping. Then,
T is said to be an
-admissible mapping if
, .
Definition 2.7. [
19] An
-admissible mapping
T is said to have the
K-property, if for each sequence
with
, for all
, there exists a positive integer
k such that
, for all
.
Definition 2.8. [
12] Let
be a metric space and
be a symmetric function. A self-mapping
is said to be an
-type
F-Suzuki contraction if there exists
and
such that for all
with
,
Theorem 2.4. [12] Let be a complete metric space and a self-mapping be an α-type F-Suzuki contraction that satisfy the following conditions:
T is an α-admissible mapping;
there exists , such that ;
if is a sequence in X, such that as and for all , then for all ;
T has the K-property.
Then, T has a fixed point in X.
Definition 2.9. [
17] Let
X be a non-empty set and
be a given real number. A mapping
is said to be a
b-metric if for all
, the following conditions are satisfied:
if and only if ;
;
.
In this case the pair is said to be a b-metric space (with s as a constant).
Remark. Every metric space is always a b-metric with , but the converse is not true.
Example 2.10. Let
and
be given. Define a mapping
by:
Clearly, for all ,
and .
Hence, and of Definition are satisfied.
Now, we will prove that holds. For any , let us consider the following possible cases:
- case 1
-
: Suppose that . So and .
- •
-
If , then
.
- •
-
If , then
.
- case 2
-
: Suppose that . Without loss of generality, assume that .
- •
If , then and holds immediately.
- •
-
If , then
.
Therefore, by Cases 1 and case 2, we proved that is a b-metric space, with a constant . However, for , the usual triangle inequality for a metric does not hold. Thus, is not a metric space.
Definition 2.11. [
18] Let
be a
b-metric space. A sequence
in
X is said to be:
b-convergent if and only if there exists , such that . And we write, .
b-Cauchy if and only if .
Definition 2.12. [
18] The
b-metric space
is said to be
b-complete if every
b-Cauchy sequence in
X converges in
X.
Lemma 2.5. [
10] Let
be a sequence of positive real numbers and
be an increasing function. Then the following hold:
If , then ;
If and , then .
3. Main Results
The notion of an -type F-Suzuki contraction and an -type F-weak-Suzuki contraction mappings in the setting of b-metric spaces are introduced. In this section some fixed point results for these class of mappings are established. Furthermore, a suitable example is provided to support the plausibility of the results drawn from our study and the validity of our generalizations. Lastly, we provide an application to a non-linear fractional differential equation.
Definition 3.1. Let
be a
b-metric space and
be a symmetric function. A self-mapping
is said to be an
-type
F-Suzuki contraction if there exist
and
such that for all
with
,
Theorem 3.1. Let be a complete b-metric space and be an α-type F-Suzuki contraction that satisfy the following conditions:
T is α-admissible mapping;
there exists , such that ;
if is a sequence in X, such that as and for all , then for all ;
T has the K-property.
Then, T has a fixed point in X.
Proof. By
, there exists
such that,
. For any
, we define a sequence
by:
So, we have
and also
, since
T is
-admissible.
By following this procedure, one can simply get that
If
for some
, then
is a fixed point of
T.
Let us assume that
for all
, that is,
and so for all
,
Now, since
T is an
-type
F-Suzuki-contraction, by
and
, we obtain
From this we have,
That is,
In general, repeating this process one can get
Hence,
, as
. This, in conjunction with
) and using Lemma 2.5, yields
Now, we assert that the sequence
is a
b-Cauchy one. In the contrary, there exists
and two sequences of positive integers,
and
, where
, and
and
.
From this, one can observe that
Therefore,
From the triangle inequality, we obtain
and
So as
, from the above two inequalities and using
, we have
Repeating the above process, we get
From
and the triangle inequality
we have
From
and the inequality
we get
It follows from
and
that
Consequently, we can select a positive integer
so that
, for all
Therefore, using the
K-property of
T, for every
, we have
Taking the limit supremum as
of
, applying condition
) and using
and
, we get
which is a contradiction, as
. Hence
is a
b-Cauchy sequence in the complete
b-metric space
X and so it converges to some point
.
To complete the proof, we show that
is a fixed point of
T. First, we claim that, for all
,
or
Assume on the contrary that there exists
, such that
It follows that,
this implies
Following from
and
, we get that
Since,
, we have that
Since
, it follows
Using the fact that
F is non-decreasing, we obtain that
So, using this together with
and
, we have
which is a contradiction. So, we must have that
or
Hence,
Using the fact that
and by Lemma 2.5, we get that
and so
similarly,
Now, observe
Taking the limit as
, it follows that
Therefore,
T has a fixed point. □
Theorem 3.2. Let be a complete b-metric space and be an α-type F-Suzuki contraction that satisfy all the conditions of Theorem . Additionally, suppose that , for all , then T has a unique fixed point.
Proof. Suppose that and be two fixed points of T.
If
, then
. Since
, then
.
Also,
Hence, by
we obtain
which is a contradiction, since
. So,
. □
Definition 3.2. Let
be a
b-metric space and
be a symmetric function. The mapping
is called an
-type
F-weak-Suzuki contraction if there exists
and
, such that for all
with
,
Where,
Remark. Every -type F-Suzuki contraction is an -type F-weak-Suzuki contraction, but the converse is not necessarily true.
Theorem 3.3. Let be a complete b-metric space and be an α-type F-weak-Suzuki contraction that satisfy all the conditions in Theorem , then T has a fixed point in X. In addition, if for all , then T has a unique fixed point.
Proof. Using similar steps as in Theorem one can show that T has a fixed point and its uniqueness follows immediately after Theorem . □
4. Example and Application
In this section, we establish an example that supports Theorem . Also we provide an application for this theorem to determine the existence of solutions for a non-linear differential equation of fractional order. First, we consider the following example:
Example 4.1. Let
and
be defined as
for all
. It is clear that
is a
b-metric space with
. Let us define
by:
Define
by
and let
Then for
,
T is an
-type
F-Suzuki contraction mapping and also
T satisfies all the hypothesis of Theorem
with
as its fixed point.
Proof. We know that , and , for any .
Thus, T is an -admissible mapping.
Also, for any , we have that, .
Now, let be a sequence in X with for all and as .
So, using the definition of , we must have that and hence .
Following this, we have that .
To show that
T is an
-type
F-Suzuki contraction for any
with
, without loss of generality suppose that
. So, We have
Thus, as
, for
, we must have that
.
From this, since
, one can observe that,
Therefore,
T is an
-type
F-Suzuki contraction mapping and
T satisfies all the hypothesis of Theorem
with
as its fixed point. □
In the last part of this section, we provide an application for our main theorem
for non-linear fractional differential equation. Our application of this section is devoted to the existence of solution for such differential equation with two boundary conditions. Finally, we will investigate if the following non-linear fractional differential problem has any solution:
via the boundary conditions
Where, denotes the Caputo fractional derivative with order and is a continuous function. Let . Here, is the Banach space of continuous functions mapped from into endowed with the supremum norm .
In [
20], for a continuous function
, the Caputo derivative with fractional order
, is defined as follows:
Where,
denotes the integer part of the positive real number
, and
is a gamma function. Also for a continuous function
, the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives of order
is defined by:
where the right-hand sided part is point-wise defined on
.
At last, we prove the following existence theorem that supports our Theorem :
Theorem 4.1. Assume that
-
for and , there exist a function such that
,
for each and such that ;
for all , there exists , such that , where the mapping is defined by
for each , implies , for all ;
for all , if is a sequence in X, such that in X and , then for all .
Then, there is at least one solution for problem (4.1).
Proof. Since
h is continuous, we know that,
is a solution of (4.1) if and only if it is a solution of the integral equation
which is the inverted form of equation (4.1). Then, solving problem (4.1) is equivalent to finding
, which is a fixed point of
T.
Following this, let
such that
for all
. Taking the supremum over
and by
, we obtain
Hence, for each
with
, for each
, we have
Where,
Taking a logarithm both sides of the inequality
, we have
which implies
Next, consider the function
defined by:
.
Clearly, F satisfies conditions and ).
Now, we define
by:
Therefore,
which implies that,
T is an
-type
F-Suzuki-contraction.
Also, by condition , we obtain
,
for all .
Thus, T is -admissible.
Again by condition , there exists such that and also T satisfies the K-property. Additionally, from , F is continuous.
This implies that, all the conditions of Theorem are satisfied.
So following from this, there exist , such that .
Therefore, is a solution of problem (4.1). □
5. Conclusion
The last few decades have seen a significant increase in interest in the search for fixed points with
F-contractive type conditions due to its intriguing applications. Our paper’s primary goal is to introduce novel ideas for
-type
F-Suzuki-contraction and
-type
F-weak-Suzuki-contraction in the setting of
b-metric spaces. These concept are fundamentally weaker than the class of
F-contraction mappings described in [
2,
4,
6,
11,
12,
14]. The existence and uniqueness of some fixed point results in this spaces are established for these kind of contractions. Additionally, an example and an application to a non-linear differential equation of fractional order are provided to show the applicability of our obtained results.
Author Contributions
Yohannes T. involved in conceptualization, original draft preparation, formal analysis, methodology, writing, editing and approving of the manuscript. Kidane K. involved in conceptualization, formal analysis, supervision, reviewing and editing of the manuscript. Haider E. involved in revising, formal analysis and proof reading of the manuscript. All authors contributed equally. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Institutional Review Board Statement
Not applicable.
Informed Consent Statement
Not applicable.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest..
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