Research Article
Common Fixed Points of Four Maps Satisfying -Contraction on
-Metric Spaces
Muhammad Nazam,
1
Ma Zhenhua,
2,3
Sami Ullah Khan,
1,4
and Muhammad Arshad
1
1
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, International Islamic University, H-10, Islamabad, Pakistan
2
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Hebei University of Architecture, Zhangjiakou 075024, China
3
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 10001, China
4
Department of Mathematics, Gomal University D. I. Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 29050, Pakistan
Correspondence should be addressed to Ma Zhenhua; mazhenghua 1981@163.com
Received 16 October 2017; Accepted 7 December 2017; Published 28 December 2017
Academic Editor: Ahmad S. Al-Rawashdeh
Copyright © 2017 Muhammad Nazam et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
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cited.
We manifest some common fxed point theorems for four maps satisfying C´ ır´ ıc type -contraction and Hardy-Rogers type -
contraction defned on complete -metric spaces. We apply these results to infer several new and old corresponding results. Tese
results also generalize some results obtained previously. We dispense examples to validate our results.
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Afer the famous Banach Contraction Principle, a large
number of researchers revealed many fruitful generalizations
of Banach’s fxed point theorem. One of these generalizations
is known as -contraction presented by Wardowski [1].
Wardowski [1] evinced the fact that every -contraction
defned on complete -metric space has a unique fxed point.
Te concept of -contraction proved to be another milestone
in fxed point theory and numerous research papers on -
contraction have been published (see, e.g., [2–8]). Recently,
Cosentino and Vetro [9] established a fxed point result
for Hardy-Rogers type -contraction and Mınak et al. [10]
presented a fxed point result for C´ ır´ ıc type generalized -
contraction.
In 1989, Bakhtin [11] investigated the concept of -metric
spaces; however, Czerwik [12] initiated study of fxed point of
self-mappings in -metric spaces and proved an analogue of
Banach’s fxed point theorem. Since then, numerous research
articles have been published comprising fxed point theorems
for various classes of single-valued and multivalued operators
in -metric spaces (see, e.g., [13–19]).
We shall bring into use the idea of C´ ır´ ıc type -contrac-
tion and Hardy-Rogers type -contraction comprising four
self-mappings defned on -metric space. We present com-
mon fxed point results for four self-maps satisfying C´ ır´ ıc type
and Hardy-Rogers type -contraction on -metric space. We
apply our results to infer several new and old results.
We denote (0, ∞) by R
+
, [0, ∞) by R
+
0
, (−∞, +∞) by R,
and set of natural numbers by N.
We bring back into reader’s mind some defnitions and
properties of -metric.
Defnition 1 (see [12]). Let be a nonempty set and ≥1 be
a real number. A function
: × → [0, ∞) is said to be
a -metric if, for all ,,∈, one has
(
1) = if and only if
(, ) = 0,
(
2)
(, ) =
(, ),
(
3)
(, ) ≤ [
(, ) +
(, )].
In this case, the pair (,
,) is called a -metric space (with
coefcient ).
Defnition 1 allows us to remark that the class of -metric
spaces is efectually more general than that of metric spaces
because a -metric is a metric when =1. Te following
example describes the signifcance ofa -metric.
Hindawi
Journal of Function Spaces
Volume 2017, Article ID 9389768, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9389768