Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the notion of bicomplex partial metric space and prove some common fixed point theorems. The presented results generalize and expand some of the literature’s well-known results. An example and application on bicomplex partial metric space is given.
MSC:
47H9; 47H10; 30G35; 46N99; 54H25
1. Introduction
Serge [1] made a pioneering attempt in the development of special algebra. He conceptualized commutative generalization of complex numbers, bicomplex numbers, tricomplex numbers, etc. as elements of an infinite set of algebra. Subsequently, in the 1930s, researchers contributed in this area [2,3,4]. The next fifty years failed to witness any advancement in this field. Later, Price [5] developed the bicomplex algebra and function theory. Recent works in this subject [6] find some significant applications in different fields of mathematical sciences as well as other “branches of science and technology (see, for instance [7,8,9] and reference therein)”. An impressive body of work has been developed by a number of researchers. Among them, an important work on elementary functions of bicomplex numbers has been done by Luna-Elizaarrars, Shapiro, Struppa and Vajiac [10]. Choi, Datta, Biswa, and Islam [11] proved some common fixed point theorems in connection with two weakly compatible mappings in bicomplex valued metric spaces. Jebril [12] proved some common fixed point theorems under rational contractions for a pair of mappings in bicomplex valued metric spaces. In 2017, Dhivya and Marudai [13] introduced the concept of complex partial metric space and suggested a plan to expand the results and proved the following common fixed point theorems under the rational expression contraction condition.
Theorem 1.
Let be a partially ordered set and suppose that there exists a complex partial metric in such that is a complete complex partial metric space. Let be a pair of weakly increasing mapping and suppose that, for every comparable , we have either
for with , , or
If Γ or Λ is continuous; then, Γ and Λ have a common fixed point and .
In 2019, Gunaseelan and Mishra [14] proved coupled fixed point theorems on complex partial metric space using different types of contractive conditions. In 2021, Gunaseelan, Arul Joseph, Yongji, and Zhaohui [15] proved common fixed point theorems on complex partial metric space. In 2021, Beg, Kumar Datta, and Pal [16] proved fixed point theorems on bicomplex valued metric spaces. Usually, in a metric space, self distance is zero (i.e., ), but, in partial metric space, the self distance need not be equal to zero. In this paper, inspired by Theorem 1, here we prove some common fixed point theorems on bicomplex partial metric space with an application.
2. Preliminaries
Throughout this paper, we denote the set of real, complex, and bicomplex numbers respectively as , and . Segre [1] defined the bicomplex number as follows:
where , and independent units are such that and , we denote that the set of bicomplex numbers is defined as:
i.e.,
where and . If and be any two bicomplex numbers, then the sum is and the product is .
Definition 1.
Ref. [5] Let ξ and η be elements in . If , then ξ is called an idempotent element. If , , and , then ξ and η are called divisors of zero.
There are four idempotent elements in , they are out of which and are nontrivial such that and . Every bicomplex number can be uniquely expressed as the combination of and , namely
This representation of is known as the idempotent representation of bicomplex number and the complex coefficients and are known as idempotent components of the bicomplex number .
An element is said to be invertible if there exists another element in such that and is said to be inverse (multiplicative) of . Consequently, is said to be the inverse (multiplicative) of . An element which has an inverse in is said to be the non-singular element of and an element which does not have an inverse in is said to be the singular element of .
An element is non-singular if and only if and singular if and only if . The inverse of is defined as
Zero is the only element in which does not have multiplicative inverse and in , is the only element which does not have a multiplicative inverse. We denote the set of singular elements of and by and , respectively. However, there is more than one element in , which does not have multiplicative inverse, and we denote this set by and clearly .
A bicomplex number is said to be degenerated if the matrix
is degenerated. In that case, exists, and it is also degenerated.
The norm of is a positive real valued function and is defined by
where .
The linear space with respect to defined norm is a normed linear space; in addition, is complete; therefore, is the Banach space. If , then holds instead of . Therefore, is not the Banach algebra. The partial order relation on is defined as: Let be the set of bicomplex numbers and , then if and only if and , i.e., if one of the following conditions is satisfied:
- (a)
- , ,
- (b)
- , ,
- (c)
- , , and
- (d)
- , ,
In particular, we can write if and i.e., one of (b), (c), and (d) is satisfied, and we will write if only (d) is satisfied.
For any two bicomplex numbers , we can verify the following:
- (1)
- ,
- (2)
- ,
- (3)
- , where is a non-negative real number,
- (4)
- and the equality holds only when at least one of and is degenerated,
- (5)
- if is a degenerated bicomplex number with ,
- (6)
- , if is a degenerated bicomplex number.
Now, let us recall some basic concepts and notations, which will be used in the sequel.
Definition 2.
A bicomplex partial metric on a non-void set is a function such that, for all :
- (i)
- , (small self-distances)
- (ii)
- (symmetry)
- (iii)
- if and only if (equality)
- (iv)
- (triangularity).
A bicomplex partial metric space is a pair such that is a non-void set, and is the bicomplex partial metric on .
Example 1.
Let be a set endowed with the classical bicomplex partial metric , ∀ ,
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Then, , , and of Definition 2 are obvious for the function . Let , , be arbitrary.
Now,
Therefore, . Hence, is a bicomplex partial metric space.
For the bicomplex partial metric space on , the function given by is a usual metric on . Each bicomplex partial metric on generates a topology on with the base family of open -balls , where for all and .
A bicomplex valued metric space is a bicomplex partial metric space. However, a bicomplex partial metric space need not be a bicomplex valued metric space. The above Example 1 illustrates such a bicomplex partial metric space.
Note that self distance need not be zero, for example . Now, the metric induced by is as follows: ; without loss of generality, suppose then . Therefore, .
Theorem 2.
Let be a bicomplex partial metric space, then is .
Proof.
Supposing and , from condition (i) and (iii) in Definition 2, we get
Suppose that . Then, we have . Now, let such that . Therefore, and . Hence, is . □
Definition 3.
Let be a bicomplex partial metric space. A sequence in is said to be a convergent and converges to if, for every , there exists such that for all , and it is denoted by .
Lemma 1.
Let be a bicomplex partial metric space. A sequence converges to iff .
Proof.
Assume that converges to . Let be any real number. Suppose
Then, and, for this , there is a natural number such that for all i.e., . Therefore,
Therefore, as .
Conversely, assume that as . Then, for each , there exists a real such that, for all ,
Then, for this , there exists such that
Therefore,
Hence, converges to a point . □
Definition 4.
Let be a bicomplex partial metric space. A sequence in is said to be a Cauchy sequence in if, for any , there exist and such that for all and .
Definition 5.
Let be a bicomplex partial metric space. Let be any sequence in . Then,
- (i)
- If every Cauchy sequence in is convergent in , then is said to be a complete bicomplex partial metric space.
- (iI)
- A mapping is said to be continuous at if, for every , there exists such that .
Lemma 2.
Let be a bicomplex partial metric space and be a sequence in . Then, is a Cauchy sequence in iff .
Proof.
Assume that is a Cauchy sequence in . Let be any real number. Suppose
Then, and, for this , there is a natural number such that for all i.e., . Therefore,
Therefore, as .
Conversely, assume that as . Then, for each , there exists a real such that, for all ,
Then, for this , there exists such that
Therefore,
Hence, is a Cauchy sequence. □
Definition 6.
Let Γ and Λ be self mappings of non-void set . A point is called a common fixed point of Γ and Λ if .
3. Main Results
Theorem 3.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and be two continuous mappings such that
for all , where . Then, the pair has a unique common fixed point and .
Proof.
Let be arbitrary point in and define a sequence as follows:
Then, by (1) and (2), we obtain
Case I: If , then we have
This implies , which is a contradiction.
Case II: If , , then we have
From the next step, we have
The following three cases arise, and we have
Case IIa:
which implies and is a contradiction.
Case IIb:
From (3) and (4), , we get
For , with , we have
Moreover, by using (4), we get
Therefore,
Then, we have
Hence, is a Cauchy sequence in .
Case IIc:
This implies that
Since , we get . Using Case IIb, we get that is a Cauchy sequence in .
Case III:
If , . Then, we have
Hence,
For the next step, we have
Then, we have the following three cases:
Case IIIa:
which implies , which is a contradiction.
Hence, is a Cauchy sequence in . In all the above discussed cases, we get that the sequence is a Cauchy sequence. Since is complete, there exists such that as and
By the continuity of , it follows that as .
However,
Next, we have to prove that is a fixed point of .
As , we obtain . Thus, . Hence, and . In the same way, we have such that as and
By the continuity of , it follows as .
However,
Next, we have to prove that is a fixed point of .
As , we obtain . Thus, . Hence, and . Therefore, is a common fixed point of the pair .
To prove uniqueness, let us consider as another common fixed point for the pair . Then,
This implies that . □
In the absence of the continuity condition for the mappings and , we get the the following theorem.
Theorem 4.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and be two mappings such that
for all , where . Then, the pair has a unique common fixed point and .
Proof.
Following from Theorem 3, we get that the sequence is a Cauchy sequence. Since is complete, there exists such that as .
Since and are not continuous, we have .
Then, we estimate
This yields
Hence, , which is a contradiction. Then, . In the same way, we obtain . Hence, is a common fixed point for the pair and . For uniqueness of the common fixed point, follows from Theorem 3. □
For , we get the following fixed points results on bicomplex partial metric space.
Theorem 5.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and be a continuous mapping such that
for all , where . Then, the pair Γ has a unique fixed point and .
Remark 1.
Similarly, we get a fixed point result in the absence of continuity condition for the mapping Γ.
Corollary 1.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and be a continuous mapping such that
for all , where . Then, Λ has a unique fixed point and .
Proof.
By Theorem 3, we get such that and . Then, we get
Hence, . Then, has a unique fixed point. □
Remark 2.
From the above Corollary 1, similarly, we get a fixed point result in the absence of continuity condition for the mapping Λ.
Next, we will present a new generalization of a common fixed point theorem on bicomplex partial metric space.
Theorem 6.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular and and be two continuous mappings such that
for all , where . Then, the pair has a unique common fixed point and .
Proof.
Let be arbitrary point in and define a sequence as follows:
Then, by (12) and (13), we obtain
If , then
This shows that , which is a contradiction. Therefore,
Similarly, we obtain
From (14) and (15), , we get
For , with , we have
By using (16), we get
Therefore,
Hence, we have
Hence, is a Cauchy sequence in . Since is complete, then there exists such that as and
being continuous yields
Similarly, by the continuity of , we get . Then, the pair has a common fixed point. To prove uniqueness, let us consider that is another common fixed point for the pair . Then,
This implies that . □
In the absence of the continuity condition for the mapping and in Theorem 6, we obtain the following result.
Theorem 7.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular and and be two mappings such that
for all , where . Then, the pair has a unique common fixed point and .
Proof.
Following from Theorem 6, we get that the sequence is a Cauchy sequence. Since is complete, then there exists such that as and
Since and are not continuous, we have .
Then, we estimate
This yields
Hence, , which is a contradiction. Then, . In the same way, we obtain . Hence, is a common fixed point for the pair . The uniqueness of the common fixed point follows from Theorem 6. □
For , we get the following fixed points results on bicomplex partial metric space.
Theorem 8.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular and and be a continuous mapping such that
for all , where . Then, Γ has a unique fixed point and .
Remark 3.
Similarly, in the absence of the continuity condition, we can get a fixed point result on Γ.
Corollary 2.
Let be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular and and be a continuous mapping such that
for all , where . Then, Γ has a unique fixed point and .
Proof.
By Theorem 6, we get such that and . Then, we get
Hence, . Then, has a unique fixed point. □
Remark 4.
From the above Corollary 2, similarly, we get a fixed point result in the absence of continuity condition for the mapping Γ.
Example 2.
Let be endowed with the order if and only if . Then, is a partial order in . Define the bicomplex partial metric space as follows:
| (1,1), (2,2) | 0 |
| (1,2), (2,1), (1,3), (3,1), (2,3), (3,2), (3,3) | |
| (1,4), (4,1), (2,4), (4,2), (3,4), (4,3), (4,4) |
Obviously, is a complete bicomplex partial metric space for . Define by ,
Clearly, Γ and Λ are continuous functions. Now, for , we consider the following cases:
- (A)
- If and , then and the conditions of Theorem 3 are satisfied.
- (B)
- If , , then , ,
- (C)
- If , , then , ,
- (D)
- If , , then , ,
- (E)
- If , , then , ,Moreover, for , with , the conditions of Theorem 3 are satisfied. Therefore, 1 is the unique common fixed point of Γ and Λ.
4. Application
Let be a set of all real continuous functions on equipped with metric for all , where is the usual real modulus. Then, is a complete bicomplex partial metric space. Now, we consider the system of nonlinear Fredholm integral equation
and
where . Assume that and are continuous, where is a given function in .
Theorem 9.
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we proved some common fixed point theorems on bicomplex partial metric space. In addition, we find a common unique solution of a system of nonlinear Fredholm integral equations, and we support our theoretical results by an example that we explain.
Author Contributions
Writing – original draft, Z.G.; Writing—review & editing, G.M., A.J.G. and Y.L. All authors contributed equally in writing this article. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of P. R. China (Nos.11971493 and 12071491).
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Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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