Boyd-Wong type functional contractions under locally transitive binary relation with applications to boundary value problems

Abstract

The area of metric fixed point theory applied to relational metric spaces has received significant attention since the appearance of the relation-theoretic contraction principle. In recent times, a number of fixed point theorems addressing the various contractivity conditions in the relational metric space has been investigated. Such results are extremely advantageous in solving a variety of boundary value problems, matrix equations, and integral equations. This article offerred some fixed point results for a functional contractive mapping depending on a control function due to Boyd and Wong in a metric space endued with a local class of transitive relations. Our findings improved, developed, enhanced, combined and strengthened several fixed point theorems found in the literature. Several illustrative examples were delivered to argue for the reliability of our findings. To verify the relevance of our findings, we conveyed an existence and uniqueness theorem regarding the solution of a first-order boundary value problem.

Keywords

• fixed points
• functional contractions
• control functions
• binary relations
• boundary value problems