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Equivalence of completeness and contraction property

Author(s): Shu-wen Xiang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 1051-1058.
MSC (2000): Primary 47H10, 54H25; Secondary 54E50, 54E35
Posted: September 18, 2006
MathSciNet review: 2262905
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Abstract: In this paper, we consider the completeness and the contraction property in metric spaces and show that the contraction property implies Lipschitz-completeness or arcwise-completeness in a metric space. However, in a metric space, the contraction property does not imply the usual completeness. We prove that a locally Lipschitz-connected metric space has the contraction property if and only if it is Lipschitz-complete and that a locally arcwise-connected metric space is arcwise-complete if and only if $ X$ has the strong contraction property.


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Additional Information:

Shu-wen Xiang
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, People's Republic of China
Email: shwxiang@vip.163.com

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08684-9
PII: S 0002-9939(06)08684-9
Keywords: Completeness, contraction property, Lipschitz-completeness, arcwise-completeness
Received by editor(s): October 22, 2005
Posted: September 18, 2006
Additional Notes: This work was completed with the support of NSF of China (No: 10561003)
Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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