Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 178306, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/178306
Research Article

Fixed Point Results in Quasimetric Spaces

Abdul Latif and Saleh A. Al-Mezel

Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, P. O. Box 80203, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Received 21 August 2010; Accepted 5 October 2010

Academic Editor: Qamrul Hasan Ansari

Copyright © 2011 Abdul Latif and Saleh A. Al-Mezel. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

In the setting of quasimetric spaces, we prove some new results on the existence of fixed points for contractive type maps with respect to Q-function. Our results either improve or generalize many known results in the literature.