FIXED POINT RESULTS RELATED TO REICH’S PROBLEM

Abdul Latif (Saudi Arabia) and Saleh Abdullah Al-Mezel (Saudi Arabia)

Received June 24, 2009

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Keywords and phrases: metric space, w-distance, fixed point, multivalued contraction, Reich’s problem.