On the construction of metrics from fuzzy metrics and its application to the fixed point theory of multivalued mappings

Abstract

[EN] We present a procedure to construct a compatible metric from a given fuzzy metric space. We use this approach to obtain a characterization of a large class of complete fuzzy metric spaces by means of a fuzzy version of Caristi’s fixed point theorem, obtaining, in this way, partial solutions to a recent question posed in the literature. Some illustrative examples are also given.The authors thank the referees for several useful suggestions. Salvador Romaguera and Pedro Tirado acknowledge the support of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, grant MTM2012-37894-C02-01.Castro Company, F.; Romaguera Bonilla, S.; Tirado Peláez, P. (2015). On the construction of metrics from fuzzy metrics and its application to the fixed point theory of multivalued mappings. Fixed Point Theory and Applications. 2015:226. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13663-015-0476-12015:226Kelley, JL: General Topology. Springer, New York (1955)Schweizer, B, Sklar, A: Statistical metric spaces. Pac. J. Math. 10, 314-334 (1960)Klement, E, Mesiar, R, Pap, E: Triangular Norms. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht (2000)Hamacher, H: Über logische Verknüpfungen unscharfer Aussagen und deren zugehörige Bewertungsfunktionen. In: Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research, pp. 276-287. Hemisphere, New York (1975)Kramosil, I, Michalek, J: Fuzzy metrics and statistical metric spaces. Kybernetika 11, 326-334 (1975)George, A, Veeramani, P: On some results in fuzzy metric spaces. Fuzzy Sets Syst. 64, 395-399 (1994)Gregori, V, Romaguera, S: Some properties of fuzzy metric spaces. Fuzzy Sets Syst. 115, 485-489 (2000)Radu, V: On the triangle inequality in PM-spaces. STPA, West University of Timişoara 39 (1978)Abbas, M, Ali, B, Romaguera, S: Multivalued Caristi’s type mappings in fuzzy metric spaces and a characterization of fuzzy metric completeness. Filomat 29(6), 1217-1222 (2015)Cho, YJ, Grabiec, M, Radu, V: On Nonsymmetric Topological and Probabilistic Structures. Nova Science Publishers, New York (2006)Hadžić, O, Pap, E: Fixed Point Theory in Probabilistic Metric Spaces. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht (2001)Mihet, D: A note on Hicks type contractions on generalized Menger spaces. STPA, West University of Timişoara 133 (2002)Mihet, D: A Banach contraction theorem in fuzzy metric spaces. Fuzzy Sets Syst. 144, 431-439 (2004)Radu, V: Some fixed point theorems in PM spaces. In: Stability Problems for Stochastic Models. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1233, pp. 125-133. Springer, Berlin (1985)Radu, V: Some remarks on the probabilistic contractions on fuzzy Menger spaces (The Eighth Intern. Conf. on Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Cluj-Napoca, 2001). Autom. Comput. Appl. Math. 11(1), 125-131 (2002)Chauhan, S, Shatanawi, W, Kumar, S, Radenović, S: Existence and uniqueness of fixed points in modified intuitionistic fuzzy metric spaces. J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 7, 28-41 (2014)Hussain, N, Salimi, P, Parvaneh, V: Fixed point results for various contractions in parametric and fuzzy b-metric spaces. J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 8, 719-739 (2015)Mihet, D: Common coupled fixed point theorems for contractive mappings in fuzzy metric spaces. J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 6, 35-40 (2013)Hicks, TL: Fixed point theory in probabilistic metric spaces. Zb. Rad. Prir.-Mat. Fak. (Novi Sad) 13, 63-72 (1983)Radu, V: Some suitable metrics on fuzzy metric spaces. Fixed Point Theory 5, 323-347 (2004)O’Regan, D, Saadati, R: Nonlinear contraction theorems in probabilistic spaces. Appl. Math. Comput. 195, 86-93 (2008)Caristi, J: Fixed point theorems for mappings satisfying inwardness conditions. Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 215, 241-251 (1976)Kirk, WA: Caristi’s fixed-point theorem and metric convexity. Colloq. Math. 36, 81-86 (1976)Ansari, QH: Metric Spaces: Including Fixed Point Theory and Set-Valued Maps. Alpha Science, Oxford (2010