A Kirk Type Characterization of Completeness for Partial Metric Spaces
We extend the celebrated result of W. A. Kirk that a metric space X is complete if and only if every Caristi self-mapping for X has a fixed point, to partial metric spaces.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Fixed Point Theory and Applications |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/493298 |