<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">APM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Advances in Pure Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2160-0368</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/apm.2013.32039</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">APM-28692</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Four Mappings Satisfying Ψ-Contractive Type Condition and Having Unique Common Fixed Point on 2-Metric Spaces
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>ailan</surname><given-names>Jin</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yongjie</surname><given-names>Piao</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, China</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>hljin98@ybu.edu.cn(AJ)</email>;<email>pyj6216@hotmail.com(YP)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>05</day><month>03</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>03</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>277</fpage><lpage>281</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>November</day>	<month>7,</month>	<year>2012</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>January</day>	<month>21,</month>	<year>2013</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>January</day>	<month>30,</month>	<year>2013</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
   In this paper, we introduce a class Ψ of real functions defined on the set of non-negative real numbers, and obtain a new unique common fixed point theorem for four mappings satisfying Ψ-contractive condition on a non-complete 2-metric space and give the versions of the corresponding result for two and three mappings. 
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>2-Metric Space; Class Ψ; Cauchy Sequence; Coincidence Point; Common Fixed Point</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction and Preliminaries</title><p>Using subsidiary conditions [1,2] such as commutability of mappings or uniform boundless of mappings at some point and so on, many authors have discussed and obtained many unique common fixed point theorems of mappings with some contractive or quasi-contractive condition on 2-metric spaces. The author [3-7] obtained similar results for infinite mappings with contractive conditions or quasicontractive conditions under removing the above subsidiary conditions. These results generalized and improved many same type unique common fixed point theorems. Recently, the author [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.28692-ref8">8</xref>] discussed the existence of coincidence points and common fixed points for four mappings with <img src="7-5300364\4c969684-cc28-4af9-b654-73e7224b2392.jpg" />-contractive conditions on 2-metric spaces and give some corresponding results.</p><p>Here, by introducing a new class <img src="7-5300364\d9ca8571-6253-4e05-ac00-4cba955b2c07.jpg" /> of real functions defined on<img src="7-5300364\818c5811-96f9-4bcc-b895-bdd89efbc58e.jpg" />, we will discuss the existence problem of unique common fixed points for four mappings with <img src="7-5300364\aeeb8584-36a6-41f2-acd0-2260940b72e4.jpg" />-contractive type condition on non-complete 2-metric spaces and give some corresponding forms.</p><p>The following definitions and lemmas are well known.</p><p>Definition1.1. ([<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.28692-ref3">3</xref>]) <img src="7-5300364\f43918d1-30c4-4594-8b59-c7ee76cedd4b.jpg" />2-metric space <img src="7-5300364\a6fbd780-10b3-405d-bb39-f11c0c58cf7e.jpg" /> consists of a nonempty set <img src="7-5300364\6c4c60f3-d144-4114-bf95-c22c786e6709.jpg" /> and a function <img src="7-5300364\2da13f80-b5fc-4fd7-b44a-1e9b134a4ecd.jpg" /> such that 1) For distant elements<img src="7-5300364\71c41a61-7f97-453b-b98e-873728e6350d.jpg" />, there exists an <img src="7-5300364\8cea39df-5119-4f61-aa75-483bb5019d49.jpg" />such that<img src="7-5300364\265cd773-8ad1-412d-980f-d0b880637f7f.jpg" />;</p><p>2) <img src="7-5300364\08661fe3-3a64-4039-a451-fe126a6da3c8.jpg" />if and only if at least two elements in <img src="7-5300364\1a76d827-3dcf-4405-a235-d073bdf020f1.jpg" /> are equal;</p><p>3)<img src="7-5300364\20a1ed4a-e4fa-443b-aa15-97c905db4619.jpg" />, where <img src="7-5300364\32277538-8af8-4884-b9c2-823e3ef7f67d.jpg" /> is any permutation of<img src="7-5300364\212ca2f0-9e70-4b48-9364-b25804393df4.jpg" />;</p><p>4) <img src="7-5300364\1c387d42-d2eb-4bca-8ada-ec20b54ce9dd.jpg" />for all<img src="7-5300364\f5dc24fe-2cb7-4229-b18d-95af04e899b4.jpg" />.</p><p>Definition 1.2. ([<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.28692-ref3">3</xref>]) A sequence <img src="7-5300364\b6bc1c92-1406-4659-97b3-bafcabe2a871.jpg" /> in 2-metric space <img src="7-5300364\932b7583-40e5-4744-940b-0159aa70e3ed.jpg" /> is said to be Cauchy sequence, if for each <img src="7-5300364\12bb4cf9-d4be-41e7-a60c-f9f041cbe20e.jpg" />there exists a positive integer <img src="7-5300364\7643ab52-5dcc-43bc-a574-b7a930810a71.jpg" /> such that <img src="7-5300364\7ec13c84-8017-4b41-94f5-cb3ebc123742.jpg" />for all <img src="7-5300364\04c9c94d-8900-4f27-bb05-32589d71501e.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\aab698fb-a81e-4cfc-8477-0958a10ff901.jpg" />.</p><p>Definition 1.3. ([3,4]) A sequence <img src="7-5300364\37dee0e1-b9cc-400a-a30c-6b2163a5e1f6.jpg" /> is said to be convergent to<img src="7-5300364\1455533c-1fca-40a1-85a3-c73308982e9f.jpg" />, if for each<img src="7-5300364\ccf5b67e-44d7-4f5c-a628-9571765a2c65.jpg" />,<img src="7-5300364\41e53190-f3fe-4360-9d88-dbb5d094278c.jpg" />. And we write that <img src="7-5300364\6058224a-bc97-4d8d-9095-dc0889fcf683.jpg" />and call<img src="7-5300364\51b9e60c-0a80-46c2-b972-cb65c6b1132d.jpg" />the limit of<img src="7-5300364\a008ff11-57ce-4f68-a984-198175f9e661.jpg" />.<sub></sub></p><p>Definition 1.4. ([3,4]) A 2-metric space <img src="7-5300364\d882eb3a-0e9d-4cb1-b359-07b3079c3747.jpg" /> is said to be complete, if every Cauchy sequence in<img src="7-5300364\9b520dba-42c4-4d91-b289-f27b9a28669f.jpg" />is convergent.</p><p>Definition 1.5. ([9,10]) Let <img src="7-5300364\0c6cea24-81e3-4409-a50d-61381af9f539.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\16dfceef-fa8f-4c0a-a846-75c4c50a315b.jpg" />be self-maps on a set<img src="7-5300364\1ae2bc60-2bbc-434d-8e57-29797e2c3e98.jpg" />. If <img src="7-5300364\a9af1445-661c-45ce-92df-7e8886d3f7f2.jpg" /> for some<img src="7-5300364\e47a7afd-490a-4cc7-a528-57791ab0c552.jpg" />, then <img src="7-5300364\5d644fb2-a1b3-488e-ac3a-263d1051512b.jpg" /> is called a coincidence point of <img src="7-5300364\89582f1a-1428-4fe6-8a8c-b0944efeb64f.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\0014d77a-a9ce-4845-9a45-a63f2a106bdf.jpg" />, and <img src="7-5300364\d2af7e75-d213-4c9d-ab56-bcddb5c9fabe.jpg" /> is called a point of coincidence of<img src="7-5300364\f3bd39d1-f540-4449-8dcc-b1a6ea09ebce.jpg" />and<img src="7-5300364\558674b4-e89c-4eea-91b4-97fa4edd9fb6.jpg" />.</p><p>Definition 1.6. ([<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.28692-ref11">11</xref>]) Two mappings <img src="7-5300364\9fd324e1-2cd1-4bcc-9a58-2957c2199b0e.jpg" /> are weakly compatible, if for every <img src="7-5300364\a1778a52-3916-4771-bfbc-25b3efb65631.jpg" /> holds <img src="7-5300364\92052ddb-2258-4b59-91a0-38882d1ada67.jpg" /> whenever<img src="7-5300364\7459cd77-d569-43ea-8717-7fc24fb1991c.jpg" />.</p><p>Lemma 1.7. ([5-7]) Let <img src="7-5300364\9d89f97d-dc35-476a-b48e-63ec6e61b268.jpg" /> be a 2-metric space and <img src="7-5300364\7151c224-74a6-473c-a4e9-e2d47b774620.jpg" />a sequence. If there exists <img src="7-5300364\ccc9091d-bc70-4891-b33d-ffebb2f946bc.jpg" /> such that <img src="7-5300364\3ad638d7-4467-4118-b642-6f017f1a7c0d.jpg" /> for all <img src="7-5300364\7f615d7c-13cd-4148-87a9-ff53af0c1fba.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\7f3b89a8-677c-49f6-98a1-838b3a87efc7.jpg" />, then <img src="7-5300364\79ded48b-d356-401e-81d8-fa0dafdcdd64.jpg" /> for all<img src="7-5300364\5d0258d5-5c5c-48c6-b714-b6b78b88fce9.jpg" />, and <img src="7-5300364\878e6636-389f-48b1-a1e3-5514af95271c.jpg" /> is a Cauchy sequence.</p><p>Lemma 1.8. ([5-7]) If <img src="7-5300364\aaceec88-257b-4c09-97be-e5a94598632a.jpg" /> is a 2-metric space and sequence<img src="7-5300364\ba499319-c6c0-4ca1-8367-c7553dcb6a11.jpg" />, then <img src="7-5300364\465825d1-ef2b-4598-9cd7-9b71d1520c0e.jpg" /> for each<img src="7-5300364\4c864f23-ae47-48e4-8787-8afc4fea11da.jpg" />.</p><p>Lemma 1.9. ([9,10]) Let <img src="7-5300364\3f0a3027-bf6b-4e30-864a-9d7c27b8e732.jpg" /> be weakly compatible. If <img src="7-5300364\6249e290-7e16-4ed1-98d6-66ee83241287.jpg" /> have a unique point of coincidence<img src="7-5300364\6cc57c0d-96e5-4dac-bad3-c8395008556e.jpg" />, then<img src="7-5300364\02cccdf0-1308-4b78-b78c-3cb158462273.jpg" />is the unique common fixed point of<img src="7-5300364\91692af6-2b78-43f5-9f1f-43c37ad47b2a.jpg" />.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Main Results</title><p>Denoted by <img src="7-5300364\270794fd-c23e-4ef4-b740-e574667d9122.jpg" />the set of functions <img src="7-5300364\a792725a-b1e8-4165-bd4e-b4fd4b532df2.jpg" /> satisfying the following: <img src="7-5300364\b22e405a-5555-4be5-b382-4d64ee9ecb69.jpg" />is continuous and non-decreasing, <img src="7-5300364\5483268a-f8f6-40e0-a3ac-395a2e6153f1.jpg" />for all<img src="7-5300364\55f42f6d-19bc-492c-85a6-b83283a5a7af.jpg" />.</p><p>Remark <img src="7-5300364\ee8d5bc2-dc98-4a2d-93b7-db51e0c1702b.jpg" /> if and only if <img src="7-5300364\13fb495d-ebd3-4564-a5f7-444055259fb9.jpg" /><sub> </sub>is continuous and increasing in each coordinate variable and satisfy that <img src="7-5300364\3985f368-15a0-4a16-af84-25798a64b31c.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\319ae404-765b-4a14-9fb6-5289a2ef69ce.jpg" /> for all<img src="7-5300364\f5a85e15-d6f5-4490-99c0-b95555dd8ad5.jpg" />, see [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.28692-ref8">8</xref>]. Obviously, the set <img src="7-5300364\e2893745-d568-4512-b4d9-5a1a2fd196c2.jpg" /> is vary different from the set<img src="7-5300364\a2176b37-0305-4b31-8b79-fd63b78433a0.jpg" />.</p><p>Example Let <img src="7-5300364\b64f7f35-c212-48ba-b273-dd9c4a55e864.jpg" /> be defined by <img src="7-5300364\5613f510-ad17-4c7d-b300-0ba5194f4dc9.jpg" /></p><p><img src="7-5300364\d4b273eb-abae-4df3-ad22-911644557229.jpg" /></p><p>Then, obviously,<img src="7-5300364\c1e25e76-5a7c-4b17-a989-62b639fcf319.jpg" />.</p><p>The following is the main result in this paper.</p><p>Theorem 2.1. Let <img src="7-5300364\2fb9aec8-552c-442f-9b9f-cf30e7c8bb10.jpg" /> be a 2-metric space, <img src="7-5300364\c16b33ee-8be5-4e45-bcf4-51d27cc3ad2a.jpg" /> four single valued mappings satisfying that <img src="7-5300364\fc2207ac-ad15-4d91-8a1b-a011c210e48e.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\8b2f610c-ea56-4c56-b456-2d521e5a630d.jpg" />. Suppose that for each <img src="7-5300364\7e3aec6f-b524-4637-8d56-c8e981ba7e85.jpg" /></p><disp-formula id="scirp.28692-formula134296"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="7-5300364\d434150e-2323-4774-801c-4d87a92f7490.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <img src="7-5300364\27af4c58-b021-4042-8c90-da305471ee8f.jpg" />and<img src="7-5300364\efb43a43-d1bd-4c89-b71d-30bb73312736.jpg" />.</p><p>If one of <img src="7-5300364\8a8d134f-db2f-4213-b92b-54654973c3ae.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\4a3e168b-bc7f-4dcd-b794-fa8ad0d592ca.jpg" />is complete, then <img src="7-5300364\ef23b4d2-3f12-4115-a625-ee8cbb6d870a.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\edcfc2f1-c83c-4788-901f-1765a3c05dde.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\5036c196-fab5-4875-b0b9-634b3451a38c.jpg" /> have an unique point of coincidence in<img src="7-5300364\23f4eba4-b3f3-4e67-be3b-3d7e6e02727e.jpg" />. Further, <img src="7-5300364\1a92a83d-a45d-413c-9335-6ca6c118f414.jpg" />and <img src="7-5300364\89f3f698-bae0-4cbb-8ca1-86b9ed4e4839.jpg" /> are weakly compatible respectively, then <img src="7-5300364\200f7f6a-5c9a-4385-a830-81c00fb781ae.jpg" /> have an unique common fixed point in<img src="7-5300364\3efd5e48-97e8-4454-a8fa-8e2be1a4c7a9.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof Take any element<img src="7-5300364\b1cce576-50ed-44bf-859f-73f9d83a039b.jpg" />, then in view of the conditions <img src="7-5300364\27b44b87-826e-4cd0-a7d8-5c08b9a39f99.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\f6975ca2-399b-4203-a6c2-c2d92d698a84.jpg" />, we can construct two sequences <img src="7-5300364\6fa94f7a-3d79-4cad-a915-4d44c8abd65b.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\1f7084fb-d656-4827-a87d-61a62896ac91.jpg" /> as follows:</p><p><img src="7-5300364\f9dfac75-67f7-456b-a822-bf0917bef78e.jpg" />.</p><p>For any fixed<img src="7-5300364\c9239987-1fb8-419e-9870-a5003edc908a.jpg" />, by (1) and <img src="7-5300364\89ef8345-6496-4599-b1ed-85e5e4487710.jpg" /> and (iv)</p><p>in definition 1.1, we obtain that</p><p><img src="7-5300364\e2a3f522-7716-40e6-91ff-8a047f013776.jpg" /></p><p>Suppose that<img src="7-5300364\16d952cc-86ee-4b24-afc9-a9a148b1dfbd.jpg" />.</p><p>Take<img src="7-5300364\36a1c6d9-86a2-49e1-82c9-4248b4a9a131.jpg" />, then by (1) and definition 1.1 and<img src="7-5300364\e3b060eb-c286-47e5-b1c0-08a1f903e8c2.jpg" />, we obtain that</p><p><img src="7-5300364\9be905c2-f677-4272-a73f-efbb9597ebe4.jpg" /></p><p>which is a contradiction since<img src="7-5300364\0a8a3d57-7f6e-4f48-beed-262a9bab6e71.jpg" />.</p><p>Hence<img src="7-5300364\b9808c85-33bf-42ea-b7c6-12d754648279.jpg" />, so we have that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.28692-formula134297"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="7-5300364\f815b500-89c7-4bfa-ae7c-8781dde39884.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>If <img src="7-5300364\110397df-62c4-4641-a6c8-9a4039f44aef.jpg" /> for some<img src="7-5300364\90aac8c5-2de4-4db7-9ebe-1085eeffbee4.jpg" />, then (2) becomes that</p><p><img src="7-5300364\8ad8d6a5-a002-4e83-94ac-add856fd596c.jpg" /></p><p>This is a contradiction. Hence for all<img src="7-5300364\18e4d636-d8af-4997-a383-969cc04c2820.jpg" />, so we have that</p><p><img src="7-5300364\80a60ee5-f3c3-42c4-8cc2-0c8411e18645.jpg" /></p><p>Similarly, we can obtain that</p><p><img src="7-5300364\6a0c0fa5-c4bd-4991-8b0e-bdf1767e5284.jpg" />.</p><p>Hence we have that</p><p><img src="7-5300364\89b066e1-35a4-410d-a123-c9f17a822cee.jpg" />.</p><p>So <img src="7-5300364\4175ff19-4e1f-4494-8a48-b0c087846957.jpg" /> is a Cauchy sequence by Lemma 1.7.</p><p>Suppose that <img src="7-5300364\cf257d4f-8a0b-4e88-978e-446625821f1d.jpg" /> is complete, then there exists <img src="7-5300364\4ea99f4d-d1af-490d-ae41-1ec5be9d0d9b.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\07a43673-4974-401d-a3ad-f35133429104.jpg" />such that <img src="7-5300364\107ca008-fcbe-4ecb-a19d-5901e9f7ceac.jpg" />. (If <img src="7-5300364\46edf483-0cf8-4578-a6c7-b5bfc9c04611.jpg" /> is complete, there exists<img src="7-5300364\645c95c3-3ade-489c-a8e3-6610b3804cfd.jpg" />, then the conclusions remains the same). Since</p><p><img src="7-5300364\b9ae46aa-2699-4fdd-b3da-e4c46cbee7b5.jpg" /></p><p>and <img src="7-5300364\6b009510-7d27-417a-98db-efd0d6a89770.jpg" /> is Cauchy sequence and<img src="7-5300364\0e0ec8bb-7714-48f2-8a88-2e552e420064.jpg" />,we know that<img src="7-5300364\5293faf2-1a7a-486b-8f51-62dc8a8db751.jpg" />.</p><p>For any<img src="7-5300364\f29c7b61-0b4a-4858-9537-1cbe80860c3a.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="7-5300364\962fad68-1726-4eb2-8a1e-83d32ae868c5.jpg" /></p><p>Let<img src="7-5300364\79c446c6-29d1-4767-9173-fa8b1ec189b6.jpg" />，then by <img src="7-5300364\648c5959-783f-49fa-8ebb-3a773d8f91c3.jpg" />and Lemma 1.8, the above becomes</p><disp-formula id="scirp.28692-formula134298"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="7-5300364\8d053a9e-3639-4b2a-84f1-3d8f94a5db0c.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>If <img src="7-5300364\e80f425e-8602-4240-8666-98770edf7858.jpg" /> for some<img src="7-5300364\430bda35-fa48-4d47-9488-a0a7823887cd.jpg" />, then we obtain from (3) that<img src="7-5300364\899f46d3-eafe-4878-8991-5d91112912bc.jpg" />, which is a contradiction since<img src="7-5300364\210d95bc-80ea-4980-b2df-dbde99840db1.jpg" />. Hence <img src="7-5300364\de70d403-4dc4-4b30-80d9-e86e31cc75ea.jpg" /> for all<img src="7-5300364\d3004d48-7ebf-454f-b3bd-3e58d661f1b3.jpg" />, so<img src="7-5300364\5349d78a-6ceb-40b8-99a2-508247fe0cf4.jpg" />, i.e., <img src="7-5300364\c0df1f7c-e9a9-4fca-912b-57a2aab0a9ee.jpg" />is a point of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\767f0008-6479-4eae-bcbc-9b744286bddf.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\60b1b745-3798-4fb5-9b97-e623764cd142.jpg" />, and <img src="7-5300364\b857751f-d344-438b-99dd-dd0906459136.jpg" /> is a coincidence point of <img src="7-5300364\1ea841cb-b385-4141-b8c9-55b0b13a7691.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\5351a788-d8b1-43e4-9d6d-0bb9f0643b63.jpg" />.</p><p>Since<img src="7-5300364\b0f0d68b-ea84-40c5-8451-e4f0c8742180.jpg" />, there exists <img src="7-5300364\734a4dea-9040-4f62-810c-7bffaa65d5eb.jpg" /> such that<img src="7-5300364\a89af2b4-64fc-4091-8bcb-d62f0ad74b65.jpg" />. For any<img src="7-5300364\54bda02c-1dcd-469d-a4db-a78b8b2942cc.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="7-5300364\5f06e83f-d7d0-44a3-8efe-ec8c9c97e973.jpg" /></p><p>Let<img src="7-5300364\72e60f4b-01ee-40b3-84b0-9f96c26ac22e.jpg" />, then by <img src="7-5300364\58e68bee-064f-4e64-8f36-3806b20edb75.jpg" /> and Lemma 1.8, we obtain that</p><p><img src="7-5300364\d1e3c9cb-dcc8-4f5d-8224-0598850eaf52.jpg" /></p><p>If <img src="7-5300364\24c4242b-768b-43e6-9db9-7b76023edaad.jpg" /> for some<img src="7-5300364\710e3968-7d35-4d13-9244-e99ef90fbbfb.jpg" />, then the above becomes that<img src="7-5300364\e9e096e7-a570-4066-a3cc-fcf284f29078.jpg" />, which is a contradiction since<img src="7-5300364\91d6662b-eb91-4263-bc9a-3bf3e86877fa.jpg" />, so <img src="7-5300364\2cf52422-379a-4e8d-8b64-487f0fd67a6f.jpg" /> for all<img src="7-5300364\42a4bb2d-7ce9-42f5-ae01-2be63fc5bf84.jpg" />. Hence<img src="7-5300364\fd9a3d16-c3bc-4902-a613-8a48fdcef58a.jpg" />, i.e., <img src="7-5300364\553d8adb-efd5-4b8c-bbea-8a26bf541898.jpg" />is a point of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\72158a5d-3f1c-4796-a3b5-0329b62567ef.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\c216fff5-1be2-46e0-94e5-35a8beae83f2.jpg" />, and <img src="7-5300364\927afe45-8c0c-4ad4-a714-a5bd57b5c082.jpg" /> is coincidence point of <img src="7-5300364\b986834f-1672-4d55-ae73-fdb5b679b45f.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\ca248fe1-5c87-4a79-a8fa-bbf63a82ec3a.jpg" />. Suppose that <img src="7-5300364\d8adc474-dbf6-4e44-be70-e699ea3c5e68.jpg" /> is another point of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\78791eba-357d-49df-bff0-7db8387b797a.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\bccee35e-6558-452e-8bfe-7afe45aee100.jpg" />, then there exists <img src="7-5300364\d1b92e41-d738-4288-ab59-c4ffac92c2d2.jpg" /> such that<img src="7-5300364\88c90fc6-3d28-4e4c-801e-43cfac2d0ada.jpg" />, and we have that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.28692-formula134299"><graphic  xlink:href="7-5300364\f97209d7-5e95-4b0b-a2e2-bfdd63aae256.jpg"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>which is a contradiction. So <img src="7-5300364\a323f5c2-762e-401b-925b-00b20d9e3bcf.jpg" /> for all<img src="7-5300364\81173062-e218-44ff-81b8-1a82f4f90cde.jpg" />, hence<img src="7-5300364\4f570fc4-8ed8-4efb-9079-df8e3467144f.jpg" />, i.e., <img src="7-5300364\c0008e3f-7918-49dd-adc0-8c4f8fb50416.jpg" />is the unique point of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\07f032a3-9f60-4a96-a4a9-062fb84b2449.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\c32dfe2f-cad0-4ad7-9011-12ebaac0aec7.jpg" />. Similarly, <img src="7-5300364\50b1de8c-1afa-4001-bde9-b806c4f01cf4.jpg" />is also the unique point of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\e4c97bce-f9d2-4b83-a6e6-f11ff9d80b1d.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\f69be99d-19ca-4e64-8347-c502b4eff51e.jpg" />.</p><p>By Lemma 1.9, <img src="7-5300364\1407dd23-dd9b-454d-af74-a705a4ca7a05.jpg" />is the unique common fixed point of <img src="7-5300364\d4bc6cf4-1fdc-45ab-b686-bf71096a5172.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\654a6c38-642d-471a-ae79-2cce8be8a23c.jpg" /> respectively, hence <img src="7-5300364\a4b5636f-5966-4809-b6e5-cc05f6cc970d.jpg" /> is the unique common fixed point of<img src="7-5300364\3947653b-9dcd-45d7-93a5-b4faba15afec.jpg" />.</p><p>If <img src="7-5300364\d137bb3a-f6c3-4e08-81d9-0eb2652b1ad1.jpg" /> or <img src="7-5300364\e5bbe567-e552-4b75-ad11-4f69eff7592b.jpg" /> is complete, then we can also use similar method to prove the same conclusion. We will omit this part.</p><p>Using Theorem 2.1 and <img src="7-5300364\4712a245-6660-4432-8bdd-cf638ed4f8f1.jpg" /> in Example, we will obtain the next particular result.</p><p>Theorem 2.2. Let <img src="7-5300364\4cb63676-f806-4b05-9b5f-6fe1c8ac5edd.jpg" /> be a 2-metric space <img src="7-5300364\a42395a9-af30-4682-9368-38e88e6a6f29.jpg" /> four single valued mappings satisfying that <img src="7-5300364\938c5c40-27a9-4ded-9b1d-19d31e0c7ec1.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\b0b63438-a733-4927-82fd-00c636049fc4.jpg" />. Suppose that for each <img src="7-5300364\58d34500-cc08-4c3b-8583-d09429c2bbd8.jpg" /></p><p><img src="7-5300364\585d08ff-4c04-4c16-b129-a9aa565fc0fa.jpg" /></p><p>where <img src="7-5300364\8197d1b4-eb8c-416f-bc65-c91df18fa41e.jpg" /> and</p><p><img src="7-5300364\5761ca00-e5c7-4555-8635-b3bd55430657.jpg" /></p><p>If one of <img src="7-5300364\bc51f2a4-90c6-4474-8268-95e5a0130664.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\42557971-fc5f-4609-8fdc-17b473b4b561.jpg" /> is complete, then <img src="7-5300364\8493e0c2-8322-493f-8329-dc6c308bf28f.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\9137c396-8930-4991-a564-2e526603cde6.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\6bc4e67d-c677-445b-ad43-bbc39100acaa.jpg" /> have an unique point of coincidence in<img src="7-5300364\6e395360-c1ae-4c5d-8726-e125392792e6.jpg" />. Further, <img src="7-5300364\33d07e29-9370-42d2-8f52-439db50a4580.jpg" />and <img src="7-5300364\5605a346-5787-4dac-8347-68860f38f8c6.jpg" /> are weakly compatible respectively, then <img src="7-5300364\0e9b67ec-17e3-49f5-92ca-ec60ede8d1a8.jpg" /> have an unique common fixed point in<img src="7-5300364\d01bdf3a-52e1-4ee7-89b8-ac268ed1f839.jpg" />.</p><p>The following two theorems are the contractive and quasi-contractive versions of theorem 2.1 for two mappings.</p><p>Theorem 2.3. Let <img src="7-5300364\aa4874c6-224e-41a8-8b80-6bd5cdb49b68.jpg" /> be a 2-metric space, <img src="7-5300364\b43c1459-193a-4f0f-98bb-6c1b11607a75.jpg" /> two mappings satisfying that for each<img src="7-5300364\88e16fbd-c705-4d93-8c82-78a1aa5d1c3c.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="7-5300364\9483d53f-2f80-46d4-97cd-fa1d46f0cfbf.jpg" /></p><p>where <img src="7-5300364\0d804c34-6b8c-4027-92e5-8b16cdcf56db.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\626db84e-3f6b-4775-84ac-ab6a17d69501.jpg" />. If one of <img src="7-5300364\4cb8b0d0-34c4-475b-984d-a7de46f197f5.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\62d0bb03-db13-4a2b-b8c2-2b413dd79f55.jpg" /> is complete, then <img src="7-5300364\45f93f6c-14a4-433a-9ef0-ea771bcb6d48.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\89b88476-9900-4fc9-8b96-98e1a141e54c.jpg" /> have an unique common fixed point in<img src="7-5300364\bc574e73-2a07-4de8-8ee8-509d2c20dff9.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof Let<img src="7-5300364\8d6589de-4d1e-496e-a179-907ef18d795b.jpg" />, then by Theorem 2.1, there exist<img src="7-5300364\859f1ea2-6cd2-4737-b10c-e4fa7eb58d62.jpg" />such that<img src="7-5300364\9978b48c-04c1-4a13-8caa-46da32480963.jpg" />is the unique point of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\abde0086-72c7-48bf-815d-fa02a5122fd0.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\f41678bc-43d7-4163-8df0-0f920c556136.jpg" />. But obviously <img src="7-5300364\a16e2584-1ac0-4eb5-b6a5-9167bcb762a7.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\651cd9db-9492-4134-b8b2-4413f8cc1336.jpg" /> are weakly compatible, so <img src="7-5300364\75368cc4-3513-4362-9ac4-9aa179c362c8.jpg" /> is the unique fixed point of <img src="7-5300364\255312bd-2488-4cab-8f49-a3a770c5c35b.jpg" /> by Lemma 1.9. Similarly, <img src="7-5300364\e48e7ada-ff9b-49c6-a8bb-152947290bc1.jpg" />is also unique fixed point of<img src="7-5300364\18cd74e9-715b-4a80-9f93-61109a186044.jpg" />, hence <img src="7-5300364\e40018b2-ac07-44cb-90f7-bbbac52ffe23.jpg" /> is the unique common fixed point of <img src="7-5300364\c8382a8e-a519-4320-8597-7643d7c56d30.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\ff5da7df-00a0-41aa-96e3-be5cbc028220.jpg" />.</p><p>Theorem 2.4. Let <img src="7-5300364\78fd2b30-3732-48e8-91e4-57ee0fba32a2.jpg" /> be a complete 2-metric space, <img src="7-5300364\1ff1e0b6-8eb6-482f-93fe-14cd3a0c9231.jpg" />two subjective mappings satisfying that for each<img src="7-5300364\3cad6598-0940-49e8-9582-120ca20d99ff.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="7-5300364\f92777c6-f5d4-4b6a-9727-7cf53881244a.jpg" /></p><p>where <img src="7-5300364\5079b7ec-6471-434f-904c-293576616c56.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\1ecab80d-3a15-483a-9566-fb922f214bc1.jpg" />. Then <img src="7-5300364\259ad385-b0ff-4533-b657-2db905e1f709.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\890aba59-cd00-474a-bed7-6a6aa99753dc.jpg" /> have an unique fixed point in<img src="7-5300364\b0cb431e-0057-4c07-a35d-0fe0794189a0.jpg" />.</p><p>Proof Let<img src="7-5300364\b9b35a21-843b-424a-8b48-f3747ecee8e7.jpg" />, then by Theorem 2.1, there exist <img src="7-5300364\7adfe581-71ce-48e1-9285-5041154f5bb5.jpg" /> such that <img src="7-5300364\4ed9dfd4-a7b8-48c8-8806-359ddafaa4e1.jpg" /> is the unique point of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\d93c12db-f5d8-4f93-87bc-6f4231d60fee.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\c93affae-eba4-4bca-9f03-3e468591ddca.jpg" />. But obviously <img src="7-5300364\32af6ac1-f39b-4684-8fa5-7b7072da5407.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\b30071eb-7454-4eea-ac94-0ad7768298eb.jpg" /> are weakly compatible, so <img src="7-5300364\34172101-39d3-4e61-80bf-a24913e5ae7c.jpg" /> is the unique fixed point of <img src="7-5300364\ffd22518-6530-4634-a394-80709f9ad198.jpg" /> by Lemma 1.9. Similarly, <img src="7-5300364\80f5c54f-b327-42a7-958c-6f9dc2214c0b.jpg" />is also unique fixed point of<img src="7-5300364\14b113c7-a6eb-49d8-8134-c7e16eee255d.jpg" />, hence <img src="7-5300364\a0bcb83f-de70-48f1-81f2-be5c79d08b55.jpg" /> is the unique common fixed point of <img src="7-5300364\23bd9f66-0971-4cca-992c-183c6a59b6ab.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\d9bf4650-cdf1-473e-9dc2-a8a167570c56.jpg" />.</p><p>Finally we give two coincidence point theorems for three mappings.</p><p>Theorem 2.5. Let <img src="7-5300364\ff37f9c6-7b20-40ab-85e4-91b7099d9318.jpg" /> be a 2-metric space, <img src="7-5300364\c41b4e0f-69c4-402a-94f0-affea3694f56.jpg" /> three mappings satisfying that <img src="7-5300364\20359234-cf66-44f8-94b2-3a9b5e25e313.jpg" />. Suppose that for each <img src="7-5300364\1661fa89-9037-4699-bafd-1e0eab1b23f0.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="7-5300364\67029fef-2882-4d21-89b7-22756d10b280.jpg" /></p><p>where <img src="7-5300364\e6daeb77-549a-46fd-a651-7dfa138758e3.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\96201a52-25c0-4941-889c-b43f8c02b338.jpg" />. If one of <img src="7-5300364\2e181be3-8431-4e44-b1a2-503c8b3189d8.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\232258e2-f947-409d-b3ec-27a2fef556bb.jpg" /> is complete, then <img src="7-5300364\cde2d575-6ff7-4a61-8fd6-a53305c23e5e.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\f7a8401b-0bc7-49bc-ac9d-a8075817499e.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\560b106b-4517-4f24-aff7-1fede65c0c4c.jpg" /> have an unique point of coincidence in<img src="7-5300364\27c3f050-36c7-48bb-9919-b8fb1d863618.jpg" />. Further, <img src="7-5300364\d6d6841f-8562-45e9-a6f1-fdd369b988b6.jpg" />is one to one mapping, then <img src="7-5300364\9acce82f-f665-4145-bc0b-6a1b84c998ba.jpg" /> have an unique point of coincidence.</p><p>Proof Let<img src="7-5300364\c748890a-910c-4657-aeb9-6063ac09078b.jpg" />, then by Theorem 2.1, there exist a unique element <img src="7-5300364\39cda2db-746a-48ee-ab11-64da176bf188.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\313af1dc-0738-4f36-93f3-6c3d1ac1c766.jpg" /> such that <img src="7-5300364\884c6dca-16a9-4afd-ad28-8b6c829fc153.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\8b33a27c-1cfb-4edd-8c91-b556b087935d.jpg" />, hence<img src="7-5300364\98e3470d-7a93-4f96-9755-bd055c9510f6.jpg" />, which implies that<img src="7-5300364\58e419c7-cbd7-4879-953b-832bd7285aef.jpg" />, so we obtain that<img src="7-5300364\46665876-356f-4437-b96e-7af0ad94e138.jpg" />. This means that<img src="7-5300364\711d0f87-a97e-4124-bb27-f27941baf268.jpg" />is point of coincidence of<img src="7-5300364\47cf9565-1e92-41f4-a817-492f9b177e79.jpg" />. If <img src="7-5300364\bafe0205-ae29-4bbe-a960-d0de40c68c4a.jpg" /> is also point of coincidence of<img src="7-5300364\14f3e0cb-bdb1-4a5b-88d1-4bbd35eca965.jpg" />, then <img src="7-5300364\1d0d2b6b-9ea5-4907-9d65-0531a30c378f.jpg" /> is also point of coincidence of<img src="7-5300364\5f804e54-3cee-4113-95ef-4f9863a6a3a3.jpg" />, hence by uniqueness of points of coincidence of <img src="7-5300364\87bdec9b-cf1b-4e39-9460-e8f1da3112b3.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\0677ade7-c56b-4096-9a39-da7fbda30b41.jpg" />, we have that<img src="7-5300364\e4458322-2b8f-4416-a946-351143445b60.jpg" />. Hence <img src="7-5300364\f3e87d51-67a1-419f-825e-e35d748a2a11.jpg" /> is the unique point of coincidence of<img src="7-5300364\897c99cd-daad-4ef6-bf3b-b576bc8df086.jpg" />.</p><p>Theorem 2.6. Let <img src="7-5300364\e3f185ff-9063-4a0b-8131-b3b187ea2f92.jpg" /> be a 2-metric space, <img src="7-5300364\cce74116-1bde-4ded-b33b-9e1a0cc21cfe.jpg" /> three mappings satisfying that <img src="7-5300364\ae04c5ed-782d-42d3-9917-eeb01920c4e8.jpg" />. Suppose that for each <img src="7-5300364\22ea6d3b-4def-43b9-adaf-c9c9e42eb86e.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="7-5300364\153728f7-b48b-404c-bb22-8e1a7bf4e5bc.jpg" /></p><p>where <img src="7-5300364\98dbc33b-cc69-4134-b7b9-e765fb4dda97.jpg" /> and<img src="7-5300364\1325cbed-29eb-4f72-80e6-5b36f0a400b5.jpg" />. If one of <img src="7-5300364\54d4fe5d-c24a-4258-a186-c26268ea34e6.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\0e68ef9d-4a21-4ac9-927d-b243ff619ff3.jpg" />is complete, then <img src="7-5300364\5d93608a-7d6a-414a-9a48-d72a3516e14f.jpg" />and <img src="7-5300364\1c44224e-b8fb-47e8-abe2-9987a3f9fb7b.jpg" /> and <img src="7-5300364\36f702c7-630a-4ba4-961c-dd65a86e0fe8.jpg" /> have an unique point of coincidence. 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