Universal mappings and weakly confluent mappings

Weakly Confluent Mappings and Finitely-generated Cohomology

In this paper we answer a question of Wayne Lewis by proving that if X is a one-dimensional, hereditarily indecomposable continuum and if HX(X) is finitely generated, then C(X), the hyperspace of subcontinua of X, has dimension 2. Let C(A) be the hyperspace of subcontinua of the continuum X with the topology determined by the Hausdorff metric. A classical theorem of J. L. Kelley [4] asserts tha...

Hereditarily Weakly Confluent Mappings onto S

Results are obtained about the existence and behavior of hereditarily weakly confluent maps of continua onto the unit circle S1. A simple and useful necessary and sufficient condition is given for a map of a continuum, X, onto S1 to be hereditarily weakly confluent (HWC). It is shown that when X is arcwise connected, an HWC map of X onto S1 is monotone with arcwise connected fibers. A number of...

On Quasi-ω-Confluent Mappings

Weakly Picard mappings

In this paper we generalize the well known converse to the contraction principle due to C. Bessaga, dropping the uniqueness of the fixed point from its hypotheses. Some properties of weakly Picard mappings are given.

Generalized weakly contractive multivalued mappings and common fixed points

In this paper we introduce the concept of generalized weakly contractiveness for a pair of multivalued mappings in a metric space. We then prove the existence of a common fixed point for such mappings in a complete metric space. Our result generalizes the corresponding results for single valued mappings proved by Zhang and Song [14], as well as those proved by D. Doric [4].