1. Introduction
Zadeh [
1] introduced the notion of fuzzy set as a means of dealing with unpredictability that is induced due to inaccuracy or obscurity in preference to haphazardness in 1960. Heilpern [
2] introduced a class of fuzzy mappings by using the notion of fuzzy sets. He obtained fixed point results for fuzzy mappings in metric linear space and generalized various results for multivalaued mappings. Estruch et al. [
3] established the existence of a fuzzy fixed point for fuzzy contraction mappings in the context of complete metric space. Several mathematicians [
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12] extended the work of Estruch et al. [
3] in different metric spaces under generalized contractions. In 2014, Rashid et al. [
13] introduced the notion of
-admissible for a pair of fuzzy mappings by utilizing the concept of
-admissible, which was first given by Samet et al. [
14] in 2012.
On the other hand, Czerwik [
15] initiated the notion of
b-metric space to generalize metric space in 1993. Later on, Czerwik [
16,
17] defined the Hausdorff
b-metric induced by the
b-metric and obtained fixed point theorems for multivalued mappings.
In 2012, Wardowski [
18] initiated a new notion of
F-contraction and established a generalized theorem regarding
F-contractions in the context of complete metric spaces. Many researchers [
19,
20,
21] established several types of fixed point results by using and extending the
F-contraction. Recently, Cosentino et al. [
22] utilized the concept of
F-contraction in the framework of
b-metric space and proved fixed point theorems for multivalued mappings. Ali et al. [
23,
24] used the notion of
-admissible mappings and
F-contractions to obtain Feng and Liu type fixed point results in the context of
b-metric space.
In this paper, we establish some common
-fuzzy fixed point theorems for
-admissible mappings and
F-contractions in the setting of complete
b-metric space to generalize the main results of Ahmad et al. [
7], Wardowski [
18] and Cosentino et al. [
22] and some familiar theorems of the literature.
2. Background and Preliminaries
In this section, we collect some basic definitions, lemmas and notation which will be used throughout the paper (see [
1,
2,
13,
14,
15,
16,
18,
22,
23,
24] and the references therein). Let
represent the set of all positive real numbers and
represent the set of nonnegative real numbers.
A fuzzy set in
is a function with domain
and values in
If
is a fuzzy set and
, then the function values
are called the grade of membership of
in
. The
-level set of
is represented by
and is given as follows:
where
represents the closure of
. If
V is a metric linear space, then a fuzzy set
in
V is said to be an approximate quantity if and only if
is compact and convex in
V for each
and
Let
) be the collection of all fuzzy sets in
Suppose
is any set,
is a metric space. A mapping
is a fuzzy subset on
with membership
, where
denotes the grade of membership of
in
Definition 1. (see [2]) Let then a point is called an α-fuzzy fixed point of if there exists such that and is called a common α-fuzzy fixed point of and if there exists such that Whenever then becomes a common fixed point of and . Samet et al. [
14] initiated the notion of
-admissible mapping in 2012.
Definition 2. (see [14]) Let : and . Then the mapping is called β-admissible if In 2014, Rashid et al. [
13] extended the concept of
-admissible for fuzzy mappings and introduced the notion of
-admissible in this way.
Definition 3. (see [13]) Let be a metric space, and let be fuzzy mapping from into . The pair () is said to be β-admissible if these conditions hold: (i) For each and where with we have for all where
(ii) For each and where with we have for all where
Later on, many researchers [
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12] used this notion of fuzzy mapping and established various fuzzy fixed point results.
On the other hand, Czerwik [
15] introduced the notion of
b-metric space to generalize metric space in 1993 in this way:
Definition 4. Let and A function : is called b-metric if these conditions hold:
for all .
Then is called a b-metric space.
Czerwik [
16] defined the Hausdorff
b-metric
induced by the
b-metric
in this way.
Let
represent the class of all non-empty, closed and bounded subsets of
. For
, Hausdorff
b-metric
is defined as follows
where
We remember these properties from [
15,
16,
17].
Lemma 1. (see. [16,17]) Let be a b-metric space. For any and any these hold: (i) for any
(ii) for any
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii) is continuous in its variables.
In 2012, Wardowski [
18] initiated a new notion of
F-contraction and established a generalized theorem regarding
F-contractions in the context of complete metric spaces.
Definition 5. (see [18]) Let be a metric space and . Then is called an F-contraction if there exists such that;
for , where satisfies the following assertions: - ()
for
- ()
For all , ⟺
- ()
There exists such that
Many researchers [19,20,21,25] established several types of fixed point results by using and extending the F-contraction. In the framework of b-metric space, Cosentino et al. [22] added a new condition () and opened a new area of research in this way: - ()
For and each sequence such that and some , then for all
We represent by the set of all functions continuous from the right, , satisfying (1) and ()–(). Example 1. The following functions are the elements of
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
for
3. Results and Discussion
We present our main theorem as follows:
Theorem 1. Let be a complete b-metric space with coefficient and satisfying the following conditions.
(a) For each there exists such that , ,
(b) For , there exists with
(c) There exist and such thatfor all with (d) ( is β-admissible,
(e) If {} such that and then
Then there exists such that
Proof. For
Then by supposition (a), there exists
such that
and
such that
For this
there exists
such that
Since
is continuous from the right function, there exists
such that
Next, as
we deduce that there exists
(obviously,
such that
. Thus, we have
which implies by (2) that
Now,
and (
is
-admissible, so
For this
there exists
such that
Since
is continuous from the right function, there exists
such that
Next, as
we deduce that there exists
(obviously,
such that
. Thus, we have
which implies by (2) that
By pursuing a solution in this way, we obtain a sequence
in
such that
,
and
and
for all
From (7) and (8), we get
for all
It follows by (9) and property (
) that
Therefore by (10), we have
Taking
, we get
that together with (
) gives
By (
), there exists
such that
Thus
. Hence
is convergent and thus
is a Cauchy sequence in
Since
is complete, there exists
such that
By condition (e), we have
for all
Now, we prove that
. We assume on the contrary that
, so there exist
and
of
such that
∀
Now, using (2) with
and
, we obtain
As
, by (
) we obtain
Hence Similarly, one can easily prove that Thus □
From now on, we denote a complete b-metric space with coefficient as .
Theorem 2. Let and for each there exists such that . Assume that there exist and such thatfor all with Then there exists such that
Proof. Set for all ,∈ in Theorem 1. □
Theorem 3. Let → and for each there exists such that . Suppose that there exists such thatfor all Then there exists such that Proof. Let
be in this way that
where
and
for
By (
15), with
we get
that is
for all
. Thus by Theorem 2, there exist
such that
□
Corollary 1. Let → and for each there exists such that . Assume that there exist such thatfor all Then there exist such that Proof. Let
be such that
where
and
for
By (
16), with
we get
for all
, that is,
Thus by Theorem 2, we get
□
Corollary 2. Let : and for each there exist such that . Assume that there exists such thatfor all Then there exist such that Proof. Let
be such that
where
and
for
By (
17), with
we get
that is,
for all
. Thus by Theorem 2, there exists
such that
□
Corollary 3. Let and for each ∃ such that . Assume that there exist and such thatfor all with Then there exist such that Example 2. Let Define by It is very simple to show that is a complete b-metric space with coefficient . Defineand Define by for all . Now we obtain that Taking for and Thenalsofor all Therefore, all conditions of Corollary 3 hold and there exists a point such that is an α-fuzzy fixed point of . Now we derive some multivalued mappings fixed point results from our main result.
Theorem 4. Let . If there exist and such thatfor all with , then there exist such that Proof. Consider
and
defined by
and
Then
Thus by Theorem 2 there exist
such that
□
The main result of Cosentino et al. [
22] can be derived by taking a single multivalued mapping in the above Corollary.
Corollary 4. [22] Let . If there exist and such thatfor all with , then there exist such that Remark 1. If we put in the above result and consider , then we get the main result of Wardowski [7].
Now we state some fuzzy fixed point results in the context of metric spaces.
Theorem 5. Let be a complete metric space and let and for each there exist such that . Assume that there exist and such thatfor all with Then there exists such that For the single fuzzy mapping, we have the following result.
Corollary 5. [7] Let be a complete metric space and let , and for each there exist such that . Assume that there exist and such thatfor all with Then there exists such that 4. Applications
Fuzzy differential equations and fuzzy integral equations play significant roles in modeling dynamic systems in which uncertainties or vague notions of flourishing. These notions have been set up in distinct theoretical directions, and many applications [
26,
27,
28,
29,
30] in practical problems have been investigated. Various frameworks for investigating fuzzy differential equations have been presented. The primary and most attractive approach is using the Hukuhara differntiability (H-differentiability) for fuzzy valued functions (see [
31,
32]). Consequently, the theory of fuzzy integral equations was introduced by Kaleva [
33] and Seikkala [
34]. In the study of existence and uniqueness conditions for solutions of fuzzy differential equations and fuzzy integral equations, numerous researchers have applied distinct fixed point results. Subrahmanyam et al. [
35] established an existence and uniqueness theorem for some Volterra integral equations regarding fuzzy set-valued mappings by using the classical Banach’s fixed point theorem. Villamizar-Roa et al. [
36] studied the existence and uniqueness of solution of fuzzy initial value problem in the context of a generalized Hukuhara derivatives. For more details in this direction, we refer the readers to [
32,
33,
37].
We represent
the set of all nonempty compact and convex subsets of
. The Hausdorff metric
H in
is defined as follows:
where
. Then
is a complete metric space (see [
38]).
Definition 6. A function is said to be a fuzzy number in if it satisfies:
(i) x is normal, i.e, such that .
(ii) x is fuzzy convex; i.e, for (iii) x is upper semicontinuous.
(iv) is compact.
Consequently, the symbol will be used to represent the collection of fuzzy number in satisfying the above properties.
For
represents
-cut of the fuzzy set
x. For
one has that
for every
. The supremum on
is defined by
for every
, where
is said to be the diameter of
. We represent the set of all continuous fuzzy functions defined on
for
as
.
From [
39], it is well-known that
is a complete metric space with respect to the metric
Lemma 2. ([33]) Let and . Then (i) ;
(ii) ;
(iii) is integrable;
(iv)
for
Definition 7. ([36]) Let denote the set of all fuzzy numbers in and . A point z is said to be the Hukuhara difference of x and y, if the equation x holds. If the Hukuhara difference of x and y exists, then it is represented by x y (or ). It is very simple to see that x x , and if x y exists, it is unique. Definition 8. ([36] ) Let . The function f is said to be strongly generalized differentiable (or GH-differentiable) at , if there exists an element such that there exist the Hukuhara differences:and Consider the following fuzzy initial value problem
where
is taken as GH-differentiable and the fuzzy function
is continuous. The initial datum
is assumed in
. We represent the set of all continuous fuzzy functions
with continuous derivatives as
.
Lemma 3. A function is a solution of the fuzzy initial value problem (19) if and only if it satisfies the fuzzy Volterra integral equation: Theorem 6. Let be continuous such that
(i) The function f is strictly increasing in the second variable; that is, if then
(ii) There exists such thatif for each and where is the supremum on Then the fuzzy initial valued problem (19) has a fuzzy solution in . Proof. Let
We consider the space
endowed with the weighted metric
Let
be any two mappings. For
take
Assume
. Then by hypothesis (i),
Hence
Consider two fuzzy mappings
defined by
By taking
and
we have
and similarly
Therefore
This implies that
or equivalently
By passing to logarithms, we can write this as
and, after routine calculations, we get
Now, we observe that the function
defined by
for each
is in
Thus
It follows that there exists
such that
Thus all the hypotheses of Theorem 5 are satisfied and consequently
is a fuzzy solution of the fuzzy initial valued problem (
19). □