A note on a paper of Hicks and Rhoades

doi:10.1016/j.na.2005.10.021

Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications

Volume 65, Issue 7, 1 October 2006, Pages 1411-1413

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Abstract

Our aim is to point out an error in the proof of Lemma 2 in the paper “Fixed point theory in symmetric spaces with applications to probabilistic spaces” by T.L. Hicks, B.E. Rhoades [Nonlinear Analysis 36 (1999) 331–344], and to indicate a way to repair it.

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Fixed point theory in symmetric spaces with applications to probabilistic spaces
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