Abstract
We study some common results in C*-algebra-valued -metric spaces. We also present an interesting application of an existing and unique result for one type of integral equation.
Keywords:
integral equation; C* algebra; Sb-metric space; common fixed point; compatible; weakly compatible MSC:
34A12; 47H10; 54H25
1. Introduction
A metric space is suitable for those interested in analysis, mathematical physics, or applied sciences. Thus, various extensions of metric spaces have been studied, and several results related to the existence of fixed points were obtained (see [1,2,3]).
In 2014, Ma et al. introduced C*-algebra-valued metric spaces [4], and in 2015, they introduced the concept of C*-algebra-valued b-metric spaces and studied some results in this space [5]. In addition, Razavi and Masiha investigated some common principles in C*-algebra-valued b-metric spaces [6].
Recently, Sedghi et al. defined the concept of an S-metric space [7]. Additionally, Ege and Alaca introduced the concept of C*-algebra-valued S-metric spaces [8].
Inspired by the work of Souayah and Mlaiki in [9], we introduced the C*-algebra-valued -metric space in [10]. In this paper, we study some common fixed-point principles in this space. We also investigate the existence and uniqueness of the result for one type of integral equation.
2. Preliminaries
This section provides a short introduction to some realities about the theory of C* algebras [11]. First, suppose that is a unital C* algebra with the unit . Set . The element is said to be positive, and we write if and only if and , in which in is the zero element and the spectrum of t is .
On , we can find a natural partial ordering given by if and only if . We denote with and the sets of and , respectively.
In 2015, Ma et al. [5] introduced the notion of C*-algebra-valued b-metric spaces as follows:
Definition 1.
Let be a nonempty set and be a C* algebra. Suppose that such that . A function is called a C*-algebra-valued b metric on if for all , the following apply:
- (1)
- for every u and v in , and if and only if ;
- (2)
- ;
- (3)
- .
Therefore, is a C*-algebra-valued b-metric space (in short, a C*-AV-BM space) with a coefficient k.
In 2015, Kalaivani et al. [12] presented the notion of a C*-algebra-valued S-metric space:
Definition 2.
Assume that is a nonempty set and is a C* algebra. A function is called a C*-algebra-valued S metric on if for all , the following apply:
- (1)
- ;
- (2)
- if and only if ;
- (3)
- .
Then, is a C*-algebra-valued S-metric space (in short, a C*-AV-SM space).
In fact, in 2016, Souayah et al. [9] presented the notion of an -metric space:
Definition 3.
Assume that is a nonempty set and is a given number. A function is an metric on if for every , the following apply:
- (1)
- if and only if ;
- (2)
- .
Then, is called an -metric space (in short, an M space) with a coefficient s.
Definition 4.
An -metric is called symmetric if
Razavi and Masiha [10] introduced the notion of a C*-algebra-valued -metric space as follows:
Definition 5.
Assume that is a nonempty set and such that . A function is called a C*-algebra-valued metric on if for every , the following apply:
- (1)
- ;
- (2)
- if and only if ;
- (3)
- .
Then, is called a C*-algebra-valued -metric space (in short, a C*-AV-M space) with a coefficient k.
Definition 6.
A C*-AV-M is symmetric if
Under the above definitions, we give an example in a C*-AV-M space:
Example 1.
Let and be all matrices with the usual operations of addition, scalar multiplication, and matrix multiplication. It is clear that
defines a norm on , where . defines an involution on and where . Then, is a algebra. For and in , a partial order on can be given as follows:
Let be a b-metric space where, and , fulfilling
Then, this is a C*-AV-M space. Now, we check condition (3) of Definition 5:
Thus, for all , is a C*-AV-M space.
3. Definitions and Basic Properties
We define some concepts in a C*-AV-M space and present some lemmas which will be needed in the follow-up:
Definition 7.
Let be a C*-AV-M space and be a sequence in :
- (1)
- If , where , then converges to u, and we present it with .
- (2)
- If for all , , where , then is a Cauchy sequence in .
- (3)
- If every Cauchy sequence is convergent in , then is a complete C*-AV-M space.
Definition 8.
Suppose that and are C*-AV-M spaces, and let be a function. Then, f is continuous at a point if, for every sequence, in , , () implies , where . A function f is continuous at if and only if it is continuous at all .
The next lemmas will be used tacitly in the follow-up:
Lemma 1
([13]). Suppose that is a unital C* algebra with a unit :
- (1)
- If and , then for any , .
- (2)
- If and , then yields , in which .
- (3)
- If with , then is invertible, and .
- (4)
- If such that , then .
Lemma 2.
Let be a symmetric C*-AV-M space and be a sequence in . If converges to u and v, then .
Proof.
Let and . Under condition (3) of Definitions 5 and 6, we have
as if and only if . □
Due to the following definition, we extend the concept of compatible mappings of Jungck [14] to C*-algebra-valued metric spaces:
Definition 9.
Let be a C*-AV-M space. A pair is called compatible if and only if whenever is a sequence in such that for some .
Definition 10.
A point is a coincidence point of ψ and φ if and only if . Herein, is a point of coincidence of ψ and φ. If ψ and φ commute at all of their coincidence points, then they are weakly compatible, but the converse is not true.
If mappings T and S are compatible, then they are weakly compatible in metric spaces. Provided that the converse is not true [15], the same holds for the C*-algebra-valued -metric spaces:
Theorem 1.
If mappings ψ and φ on the C*-AV-M space are compatible, then they are weakly compatible.
Proof.
Let for some . It suffices to present that . By setting for all , then . Since and are compatible, we achieve as ; that is, , where . Hence, , which means . □
The subsequent lemma can be seen in [15]:
Lemma 3
([15]). Let ψ and φ be weakly compatible mappings of a set . If ψ and φ have a unique point of coincidence, then it is the unique common fixed point (FP) of ψ and φ.
4. Main Results
Here, we present an extension of the common principles for the mappings which applies to variant contractive conditions in complete symmetric C*-valued -metric spaces:
Theorem 2.
Suppose that is a a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space and satisfies
for all , where in which . Hence, ψ and φ have a unique common FP in .
Proof.
Suppose that and is a sequence in such that , . From Equation (1), we have
By remembering the property where if , then yields , we see the following for each :
Similarly, we have
Let for some . For any , we achieve
in which is the unit element in .
As is a Cauchy sequence in , and is complete, there exists such that .
By using condition (3) of Definitions 5 and 6 as well as Equation (1), we have
Hence, . Again, we note that
In other words, , and hence .
For the uniqueness of the common FP in , let there be another point such that . From Equation (1), we achieve
which, together with , yields that
Thus, and , which gives . Hence, and have a unique common FP in . □
With the proof of Theorem 2, the relevant results are as follows:
Corollary 1.
Assume that is a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space, and suppose that represent two mappings such that
for all , where and . Then, ψ and φ have a unique common FP in .
Corollary 2.
Assume that is a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space and the mapping satisfies
for all , in which and , and m and n are fixed positive integers. Thus, ψ has a unique FP in .
Proof.
Set and in Equation (1). The result is obtained using Theorem 2. □
Remark 1.
By substituting into Equation (1), we have
for all , where and . Thus, we conclude the next corollary.
Corollary 3.
Suppose that is a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space and the mapping satisfies
for all , where and . Then, ψ has a unique FP in .
Theorem 3.
Suppose that is a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space and satisfies
for all , where and . If , contained in and , is complete in , then ψ and φ have a unique point of coincidence in . Additionally, if ψ and φ are weakly compatible, then ψ and φ have a unique common FP in .
Proof.
Suppose that is arbitrary. Choose such that . This is correct because . Let such that . In the same way, we obtain a sequence in satisfying . Therefore, with Equation (2), we have
which shows that is a Cauchy sequence in . Since is complete in , there exists such that , and thus
From and Lemma 1, we obtain as , and then . Lemma 2 yields that . If there is an element w in such that , then Equation (2) yields
In the same way as in Theorem 2, we obtain because
Hence, and have a unique point of coincidence in . Through Lemma 3, we conclude that and have a unique common FP in . □
Theorem 4.
Assume that is a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space and satisfies
for all , where and . If , contained in and , is complete in , then ψ and φ have a unique point of coincidence in . In addition, if ψ and φ are weakly compatible, then ψ and φ have a unique common FP in .
Proof.
As in Theorem 3, we select in and set . Therefore, through Equation (3), we have
Thus, we obtain
Since , then is invertible, and which, together with , yields . Lemma 1’s condition (2) leads to
where and . Now, by induction and the use of Lemma 1’s condition (2), we obtain
For each , , and where , we have
where . Hence, is a Cauchy sequence in . Since is complete, there exists such that . Again, according to Equation (4), we have
This implies that . Under Lemma 2, . Therefore, and have a point of coincidence in . Here, we prove the uniqueness of points of coincidence. For this, let there be such that . By applying Equation (3), we have
This implies that , and thus . Therefore, under Lemma 3, and have a unique common FP in . □
Theorem 5.
Assume that is a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space and satisfies
for every , in which and . If , contained in and , is complete in , then ψ and φ have a unique point of coincidence in . Additionally, if ψ and φ are weakly compatible, then ψ and φ have a unique common FP in .
Proof.
As in Theorem 3, we select in and set . Therefore, under Equation (5), we have
Thus, we obtain
Therefore, we have
and consequently
where and .
Similar to the process in Theorem 4, we find that and have a point of coincidence in . Here, we prove the uniqueness of the points of coincidence. For this, let there be such that . By applying Equation (5), we obtain
In other words, we have
Since , this implies that , and thus . Therefore, Lemma 3 implies that and have a unique common FP in . □
If we choose in Theorem 5, then we obtain , and is weakly compatible with . We also have the following result:
Corollary 4.
Suppose that is a complete symmetric C*-AV-M space and satisfies
for all , where and . Hence, ψ has a unique FP in .
5. Application in Integral Equations
Let us use the following equations:
in which is a Lebesgue measurable set where .
In fact, we suppose that presents the class of essentially bounded measurable functions on , where is a Lebesgue measurable set such that .
One may consider the functions to fulfill the following assumptions:
- (i)
- are integrable. In addition, an integrable function is from to , and .
- (ii)
- There exists such thatfor and .
- (iii)
- .
Theorem 6.
Let assumptions (i–iii) hold. Hence, the integral in Equation (6) has a unique common solution in .
Proof.
Suppose that and is a set of bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space . We equip with the metric , which is ascertained by
where is the multiplication operator on ascertained by
Therefore, is a complete C*-AV-M space. We can describe the self-mappings as follows:
for each . Therefore, we have
We can obtain
By setting , then and . Therefore, Corollary 1 implies the result. □
Author Contributions
S.S.R.: Investigation, writing draft and final articles; H.P.M.: Investigation, writing draft; M.D.L.S.: checking draft and final version, funding, Project direction. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
Basque Government, Grant IT1155-22.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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