International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 15 (1992), Issue 1, Pages 15-30
doi:10.1155/S0161171292000024

Fixed points and continuity for multivalued mappings

Troy Hicks and B.E. Rhoades

Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri at Rolla, Rolla 65401, Missouri, USA

Abstract

Many of the contractive definitions do not require continuity of the map. However, in a previous paper the second author has shown in [1] that, in most cases, the function is continuous at a fixed point. In this paper we show that the same behavior is exhibited for many multivalued mappings.