A new extension to the controlled metric type spaces endowed with a graph

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we initiate a new extension of b-metric spaces, called controlled metric-like spaces, by changing the condition [ ℘ ( s , r ) = 0 ⇔ s = r ] by [ ℘ ( s , r ) = 0 ⇒ s = r ] $$ \bigl[\wp (s,r)=0 \Leftrightarrow s=r\bigr]\quad \text{by } \bigl[\wp (s,r)=0 \Rightarrow s=r\bigr] $$ and that means basically we may have a non-zero self-distance. We prove some fixed point theorems which generalize many results in the literature. Also, we present an interesting application to illustrate our results by considering controlled metric-like spaces endowed with a graph.

Keywords

• b-metric spaces
• Extended b-metric space
• Controlled metric type space
• Controlled metric-like space
• Fixed point