International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 25 (2001), Issue 8, Pages 497-507
doi:10.1155/S0161171201005312

Fixed points via a generalized local commutativity

Gerald F. Jungck

Department of Mathematics, Bradley University, Peoria 61625, IL, USA

Abstract

Let g:XX. The concept of a semigroup of maps which is “nearly commutative at g” is introduced. We thereby obtain new fixed point theorems for functions with bounded orbit(s) which generalize a recent theorem by Huang and Hong, and results by Jachymski, Jungck, Ohta, and Nikaido, Rhoades and Watson, and others.