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An analogue of Banach's contraction principle for 2-metric spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

S.N. Lal
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
A.K. Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
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Abstract

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In this paper we establish a fixed point theorem for 2-metric spaces. Some interesting particular cases of this theorem are also obtained.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1978

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