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A Study of Kirk's Asymptotic Contractions via Leader Contractions

Hassan Khandani
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This paper investigates asymptotic fixed point results for nonlinear contractions, with emphasis on Kirk-type theorems and their generalizations. A central difficulty in the literature has been the requirement that the mapping possesses a bounded orbit, a condition that is often hard to verify and traditionally viewed as essential for guaranteeing the existence of fixed points. We eliminate this boundedness assumption by proving that every asymptotic Kirk contraction is a Leader contraction, which inherently guarantees orbit boundedness. This observation simplifies fixed point arguments and broadens the scope of applicable mappings. We also resolve an open question by showing that the standard upper semicontinuity condition on the control function phi can be weakened to right-upper semicontinuity, addressing a conjecture posed by Jachymski et al. These contributions unify and generalize several foundational results, including those of Boyd-Wong, Kirk, Chen, Arav et al., and Reich and Zaslavski, under the more flexible framework of Leader contractions. The results offer streamlined and more practical conditions for convergence and fixed point existence in generalized metric spaces.

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Hassan Khandani. 2025-07-04. A Study of Kirk's Asymptotic Contractions via Leader Contractions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05276

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