2021/04/19 by Antonio Francisco Roldán López de Hierro, de Hierro, Antonio Francisco Roldán López, Erdal Karapınar +3
Mathematics · #46T99 #47H09 #47H10 #54H25 #FOS: Mathematics #Fixed Point Theorems Analysis #General Mathematics (math.GM)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2104.09155
openalex publication_date 2021/04/19 · openalex created_date 2021/04/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Taking into account that Roldán et al.'s ample spectrum contractions have managed to extend and unify more than ten distinct families of contractive mappings in the setting of metric spaces, in this manuscript we present a first study on how such concept can be implemented in the more general framework of fuzzy metric spaces in the sense of Kramosil and Michálek. We introduce two distinct approaches to the concept of fuzzy ample spectrum contractions and we prove general results about existence and uniqueness of fixed points. The proposed notions enjoys the following advantages with respect to previous approaches: (1) they permit to develop fixed point theory in a very general fuzzy framework (for instance, the underlying fuzzy space is not necessarily complete); (2) the procedures that we employ are able to overcome the technical drawbacks raising in fuzzy metric spaces in the sense of Kramosil and Michálek (that do not appear in fuzzy metric spaces in the sense of George and Veeramani); (3) we introduce a novel property about sequences that are not Cauchy in a fuzzy space in order to consider a more general context than non-Archimedean fuzzy metric spaces; (4) the contractivity condition associated to fuzzy ample spectrum contractions does not have to be expressed in separate variables; (5) such fuzzy contractions generalize some well-known families of fuzzy contractive operators such that the class of all Mihet's fuzzy ψ-contractions. As a consequence of these properties, this study gives a positive partial answer to a question posed by this author some years ago.