International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Jan 1992)

Fixed points and continuity for multivalued mappings

  • Troy Hicks,
  • B. E. Rhoades

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/S0161171292000024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 15 – 30

Abstract

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Many of the contractive definitions do not require continuity of the map. However, in a previous paper the second author has shown in [1] that, in most cases, the function is continuous at a fixed point. In this paper we show that the same behavior is exhibited for many multivalued mappings.

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