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The objective of this manuscript is to introduce and develop the concept of a generalized $\theta$-parametric metric space-a novel extension that enriches the modern metric fixed point theory. We study of its fundamental properties,…

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This paper establishes novel fixed point theorems for Kannan-type and Chatterjea-type mappings in probabilistic cone metric spaces. By integrating probabilistic distance functions with cone-valued structures, we generalize classical fixed…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Elvin Rada

We establish a simple and powerful lemma that provides a criterion for sequences in metric spaces to be Cauchy. Using the lemma, it is then easily verified that the Picard iterates $\{T^nx\}$, where $T$ is a contraction or asymptotic…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Mortaza Abtahi

Inspired by the widespread concept of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals of complete type, this article proposes an alternative class of functionals, termed Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals of robust type. Their construction aims at improving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Tessina H. Scholl

In this work we consider the general functional-integral equation: \begin{equation*} y(t) = f\left(t, \int_{a}^{b} k(t,s)g(s,y(s))ds\right), \qquad t\in [a,b], \end{equation*} and give conditions that guarantee existence and uniqueness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Suzete M. Afonso , Juarez S. Azevedo , Mariana P. G. da Silva , Adson M. Rocha

We explicitly construct global strict Lyapunov functions for rapidly time-varying nonlinear control systems. The Lyapunov functions we construct are expressed in terms of oftentimes more readily available Lyapunov functions for the limiting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Mazenc , Michael Malisoff , Marcio S. de Queiroz

In this article, we generalize some frequently used metrical notions such as: completeness, closedness, continuity, g-continuity and compatibility to relation-theoretic setting and utilize these relatively weaker notions to prove results on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Aftab Alam , Mohammad Imdad

To provide generalized solutions if a given problem admits no actual solution is an important task in mathematics and the natural sciences. It has a rich history dating back to the early 19th century when Carl Friedrich Gauss developed the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-02-09 Heinz H. Bauschke , Xianfu Wang , Calvin J. S. Wylie

Fixed point theorems are one of the many tools used to prove existence and uniqueness of differential equations. When the data involved contains products of distributions, some of these tools may not be useful. Thus rises the necessity to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-03 S. O. Juriaans , J. Oliveira

We establish fixed-point theorems for Meir-Keeler-type contractions in b-metric spaces. While Lu et al. demonstrated via an explicit counterexample that classical Meir-Keeler contractions may fail to admit fixed points in this setting, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Hassan Khandani

We present a class of iterative fully distributed fixed point methods to solve a system of linear equations, such that each agent in the network holds one of the equations of the system. Under a generic directed, strongly connected network,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Dusan Jakovetic , Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic , Greta Malaspina , Alessandra Micheletti

In this article, we obtain sufficient conditions on existence, uniqueness and Ulam--Hyers stability of solutions for a coupled system of two-point nabla fractional difference boundary value problems, using Banach fixed point theorem and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Jagan Mohan Jonnalagadda

The aim of this paper is to study Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability for a Volterra-Hammerstein functional integral equation in three variables via Picard operators.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Sorina Anamaria Ciplea , Nicolaie Lungu , Daniela Marian , Themistocles M. Rassias

In this article we discuss the solvability of some class of fully nonlinear equations, and equations with p-Laplacian in more general conditions by using a new approach given in [1] for studying the nonlinear continuous operator. Moreover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-14 Kamal N. Soltanov

In this work, partial answers to Reich, Mizoguchi and Takahashi, and Amini-Harandi's conjectures are presented via a light version of Caristi's fixed point theorem. Moreover, we introduce that many of known fixed point theorem can easily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Farshid Khojasteh , Erdal Karapinar , Hasan Khandani

An important family of structural constants in the theory of symmetric functions and in the representation theory of symmetric groups and general linear groups are the plethysm coefficients. In 1950, Foulkes observed that they have some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Laura Colmenarejo

We establish the existence of common fixed points for $C_q$-commuting self-mappings satisfying a generalized Gregus-type inequality with quadratic terms in $q$-starshaped subsets of normed linear spaces. Our framework extends classical…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Babu G. V. R. , Alemayehu Negash , Meaza Bogale

More than 20 years after Fickett attempted to prove the Hyers-Ulam stability of isometries defined on bounded subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ in 1981, V\"{a}is\"{a}l\"{a} improved Fickett's result significantly. In this paper, we will improve…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Soon-Mo Jung

We revisit an algorithm for distributed consensus optimization proposed in 2010 by J. Wang and N. Elia. By means of a Lyapunov-based analysis, we prove input-to-state stability of the algorithm relative to a closed invariant set composed of…

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