Topics in Metric Fixed Point Theory [Paperback]

Metric Fixed Point Theory has proved a flourishing area of research for many mathematicians.Metric Fixed Point Theory has proved a flourishing area of research for many mathematicians. This book aims to offer the mathematical community an accessible, self-contained account which can be used as an introduction to the subject and its development. It will be understandable to a wide audience, including non-specialists, and provide a source of examples, references and new approaches for those currently working in the subject.Metric Fixed Point Theory has proved a flourishing area of research for many mathematicians. This book aims to offer the mathematical community an accessible, self-contained account which can be used as an introduction to the subject and its development. It will be understandable to a wide audience, including non-specialists, and provide a source of examples, references and new approaches for those currently working in the subject.Metric fixed point theory has proved a flourishing area of research for the past twenty-five years. This book offers the mathematical community an accessible, self-contained document that can be used as an introduction to the subject and its development. It will be understandable to a wide audience, including nonspecialists and provides a source for examples, references and new approaches for those currently working in the subject.Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Banach's contraction principle; 3. Nonexpansive mappings: introduction; 4. The basic fixed point theorems for nonexpansive mappings; 5. Scaling the convexity of the unit ball; 6. The modulus of convexity and normal structure; 7. Normal structure and smoothness; 8. Conditions involving compactness; 9. Sequential approximation techniques; 10. Weak sequential approximations; 11. Properties of fixed point sets and minimal sets; 12. Special properties of Hilbert space; 13. Applications to accretivity; 14. Nonstandard methods; 15. Set-valued mappings; 16. Uniformly LilcÒ