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Logically Contractive Mappings: Fixed Points and Event-Indexed Rates

Functional Analysis 2025-08-12 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We introduce "logically contractive mappings" nonexpansive self-maps that contract along a subsequence of iterates and prove a fixed-point theorem that extends Banach's principle. We obtain event-indexed convergence rates and, under bounded gaps between events, explicit iteration-count rates. A worked example shows a nonexpansive map whose square is a strict contraction, and we clarify relations to Meir--Keeler and asymptotically nonexpansive mappings. We further generalize to variable-factor events and show that kλk=0\prod_k \lambda_k = 0 (equivalently klnλk=\sum_k -\ln \lambda_k = \infty) implies convergence. These results unify several generalized contraction phenomena and suggest new rate questions tied to event sparsity.

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@article{arxiv.2508.07059,
  title  = {Logically Contractive Mappings: Fixed Points and Event-Indexed Rates},
  author = {Faruk Alpay and Taylan Alpay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07059},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure. Fixed-point theorem for "logically contractive" nonexpansive maps with event-indexed and iteration-count rates, variable-factor extension, comparisons to Meir-Keeler/ANE examples

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