International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences 
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 891375, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/891375
Research Article

Common Fixed Point Theorems for Weakly Compatible Maps Satisfying a General Contractive Condition

Cristina Di Bari and Calogero Vetro

 Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Received 21 May 2008; Accepted 3 September 2008

Recommended by Wolfgang Kuehnel

Abstract

We introduce a new generalized contractive condition for four mappings in the framework of metric space. We give some common fixed point results for these mappings and we deduce a fixed point result for weakly compatible mappings satisfying a contractive condition of integral type.