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On Significant Pointwise Contractions and Annular Contractions

Ovidiu Popescu
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In the current paper, we introduce the class of \textit{significant pointwise contractions}. This family of mappings extends the classical Banach contractions and also contains nonexpansive mappings. We prove that in a complete metric space every significant pointwise contraction admits a fixed point that can be approximated through Picard iterations. We provide examples showing that the newly introduced class differs from the class of piecewise contractions and is not contained in it. Moreover, we point out that significant pointwise contractions are continuous and may possess multiple fixed points. We further introduce the class of \textit{significant pointwise shrinkings}, which generalizes the class of shrinkings, and prove that any such mapping has a fixed point in a compact metric space. Moreover, we define the class of \textit{annular pointwise contractions}, which includes Banach contractions but is distinct from the class of Suzuki mappings. Finally, we obtain a fixed point theorem for annular pointwise contractions and present an additional condition ensuring the existence of fixed points.

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Ovidiu Popescu. 2026-06-19. On Significant Pointwise Contractions and Annular Contractions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21319

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