Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 197308, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/197308

Best proximity point theorems for $p$-cyclic Meir--Keeler contractions

S. Karpagam and Sushama Agrawal

Department of Mathematics, Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras, Chepauk, Chennai 600 005, India

Abstract

We consider a contraction map T of the Meir-Keeler type on the union of p subsets A1,,Ap, (p2), of a metric space (X,d) to itself. We give sufficient conditions for the existence and convergence of a best proximity point for such a map.