Banach Contraction Principle for Cyclical Mappings on Partial Metric Spaces

Abstract

We prove that the Banacah contraction principle proved by Matthews in 1994 on 0-complete partial metric spaces can be extended to cyclical mappings. However, the generalized contraction principle proved by (Ilic et al. in Appl. Math. Lett. 24:1326-1330, 2011) on complete partial metric spaces can not be extended for cyclical mappings. Some examples are given to illustrate our results. Moreover, our results generalize some of the results obtained by (Kirk et al. in Fixed Point Theory 4(1):79-89, 2003). An Edelstein type theorem is also extended when one of the sets in the cyclic decomposition is 0-compact.