An extension of the contraction principle to render optimal approximate solutions
摘要
We elicit an extension of the most celebrated and elegant contraction principle, due to Banach, to generalized complete spaces. In fact, in light of the fact that an almost acyclic (noncyclic) contraction is a natural generalization of the contraction self-mapping, the proposed generalization is presented as a fixed point theorem for an almost acyclic contraction in the setting of a generalized complete space. As a consequence, we obtain a best proximity point theorem for almost cyclic contraction mappings to render optimal approximate solutions, known as best proximity points, to the fixed point equation