<?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">IJMNTA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Application</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2167-9479</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ijmnta.2013.22019</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">IJMNTA-33414</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Engineering</subject><subject> Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Some Notes on the Paper “New Common Fixed Point Theorems for Maps on Cone Metric Spaces”
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>ohamed</surname><given-names>Abd El-Rahman Ahmed</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sub>1</sub></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><label>1</label><addr-line>Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>mahmed68@yahoo.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>13</day><month>06</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>02</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>150</fpage><lpage>151</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>January</day>	<month>17,</month>	<year>2013</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>February</day>	<month>21,</month>	<year>2013</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>March</day>	<month>19,</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 show that Theorem 2.1 [1] (resp. Theorem 2.2 [1]) is a consequence of Corollary 2.1 [1] ( resp. Corollary 2.2 [1]). 
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Cone Metric; Weakly Compatible; Fixed Point</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>In 2007, Huang and Zhang [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref2">2</xref>] initiated fixed point theory in cone metric spaces. On the other hand, in 2011, Haghi, Rezapour and Shahzad [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref3">3</xref>] gave a lemma and showed that some fixed point generalizations are not real generalizations. In this note, we show that Theorem 2.1 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref1">1</xref>] and Theorem 2.2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref1">1</xref>] are so.</p><p>Following [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref2">2</xref>], let <img src="6-2340032\c3ea4811-e6dc-4cd1-ab3a-11d4251cada1.jpg" /> be a real Banach space and <img src="6-2340032\beec0cbb-78b8-41e5-97d6-c74b2a49c01a.jpg" /> be the zero vector in<img src="6-2340032\18c57291-8731-409f-8c85-4c1b17c244a8.jpg" />, and<img src="6-2340032\46ad7e1e-a2dd-4561-977b-4209d2f054ad.jpg" />. <img src="6-2340032\87d02432-c4f3-4420-acfa-7e428fdbdd3e.jpg" />is called cone iff 1) <img src="6-2340032\1ccb18b0-8c84-4828-a8df-814d674bcc13.jpg" />is closed, nonempty and<img src="6-2340032\caaa796b-cd69-45f4-a7aa-69c056d5378d.jpg" />2) <img src="6-2340032\328a7c7b-5ebc-430a-a243-d11baa03c091.jpg" />for all <img src="6-2340032\52977023-fb92-4742-924c-63142162293d.jpg" /> and nonnegative real numbers<img src="6-2340032\c77a2f77-c4b6-4674-83af-d30af4487192.jpg" />3)<img src="6-2340032\a0466708-ad37-4177-9fcd-b71c464317d2.jpg" />.</p><p>For a given cone<img src="6-2340032\daa35174-6110-427c-b81f-013bf354ecc1.jpg" />, we define a partial ordering <img src="6-2340032\e1f9ff3e-4f5c-4094-8277-ad4261b4dc69.jpg" /> with respect to <img src="6-2340032\d97ae93b-c09c-4452-b470-4aecd6e0e497.jpg" /> by <img src="6-2340032\c033b99a-33a5-4782-aa19-9776b59c1c2e.jpg" /> iff<img src="6-2340032\b22fba72-ba7a-4bba-bcdc-584a8a36b98f.jpg" />. <img src="6-2340032\6a44115f-d123-4663-b269-db1fdb352e53.jpg" />(resp.<img src="6-2340032\c8263d61-d2e9-4e6c-8885-5a43827d6982.jpg" />) stands for <img src="6-2340032\75fe2c86-a09d-4923-bf7d-bd4450319a86.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\cb9b8be0-35a8-4d8f-be8d-7cf39736d6a1.jpg" /> (resp.<img src="6-2340032\454c5cb5-9d00-405b-b870-967b6625c212.jpg" /><img src="6-2340032\f80e2c0e-78ed-4113-8731-c527bed1bf24.jpg" />), where <img src="6-2340032\adae91e1-5b9b-43f9-8fe2-daec8e89dc4e.jpg" /> denotes the interior of<img src="6-2340032\f3c56d0d-64d9-412f-9369-33857e29d3ca.jpg" />. In the paper we always assume that <img src="6-2340032\acba948b-dbe5-4bd8-aaa0-dd7280e2e2c3.jpg" /> is solid, i.e.,<img src="6-2340032\08be31aa-5daf-4169-ac10-8e3c76c94dde.jpg" />. It is clear that <img src="6-2340032\be7c3017-d8a6-4132-96f3-b2e1d3cae22c.jpg" /> leads to <img src="6-2340032\c7b8789b-ee64-49db-b7aa-4389a6330334.jpg" /> but the reverse need not to be true.</p><p>The cone <img src="6-2340032\aa73f158-f8df-45b4-a588-a3e6b92f1a15.jpg" /> is called normal if there exists a number <img src="6-2340032\4388675c-1800-4b12-81a6-42801dc8dd8f.jpg" /> such that for all<img src="6-2340032\fcf4d64e-51bf-45a7-935f-747dca831324.jpg" />, <img src="6-2340032\b3bab785-b9f2-475b-b650-0d3cc2db054a.jpg" />implies<img src="6-2340032\c219a91e-6fa2-426f-a672-52963e76255c.jpg" />.</p><p>The least positive number satisfying above is called the normal constant of<img src="6-2340032\97b57a84-63bc-43d4-932a-e48b18862209.jpg" />.</p><p>Definition 1.1 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref2">2</xref>]. Let <img src="6-2340032\f0c6c056-a8bd-42d8-a488-77a952e45a49.jpg" /> be a nonempty set. A function <img src="6-2340032\836f9b92-dd68-4a43-9bc4-7d382345acd1.jpg" /> is called cone metric iff</p><p>(M<sub>1</sub>)<img src="6-2340032\0edc53e2-a35f-425a-a6e6-52ce33b437e3.jpg" />(M<sub>2</sub>) <img src="6-2340032\108fea65-b82e-4729-8444-c6d2e53db213.jpg" />iff<img src="6-2340032\03fedfaf-9a5a-496e-b4ef-20fbdd24e977.jpg" />,</p><p>(M<sub>3</sub>)<img src="6-2340032\360be09c-8f11-48ab-8b4f-0acb1c95e6fb.jpg" />,</p><p>(M<sub>4</sub>)<img src="6-2340032\0783673e-b3ba-4489-a567-e903a6a7532a.jpg" />for all<img src="6-2340032\94f8c191-c324-49de-bc2b-3162147bbc82.jpg" />. <img src="6-2340032\8565d779-2bfd-4fe3-8ac3-b0ae9964b95a.jpg" />is said to be a cone metric space.</p><p>Lemma 1.1 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref3">3</xref>]. Let <img src="6-2340032\9669129f-7dab-4d89-a82b-74aa7a71ba62.jpg" /> be a nonempty and<img src="6-2340032\b58c50fa-2b36-4b0a-b2ab-76d83058ac1c.jpg" />. Then there exists a subset <img src="6-2340032\d902c5f4-615f-46a9-a974-8d59e397cc5a.jpg" /> such that <img src="6-2340032\57e05932-e1c8-4a29-afe7-4ee02a39be86.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\ab795009-1902-4d38-b99c-ff2d74c35f30.jpg" /> is one-to-one.</p><p>Definition 1.2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref4">4</xref>]. Let <img src="6-2340032\5c568e36-6330-4830-bbd4-37567bce4756.jpg" /> be a cone metric space and <img src="6-2340032\6fc3e311-1133-42a2-b8b8-9cfc11e29b1e.jpg" /> be mappings. Then, <img src="6-2340032\f2c153ad-740d-4c42-99dc-99f48386771f.jpg" />is called a coincidence point of <img src="6-2340032\175a03a9-b04e-4a7a-9186-0880d20cc22e.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\9bac5426-375c-4318-96f9-3bfd2545d99b.jpg" /> iff<img src="6-2340032\cf35c534-6f9c-42af-8aca-0c7fd34c5395.jpg" />.</p><p>Definition 1.3 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref4">4</xref>]. Let <img src="6-2340032\fdad1151-c7dc-49d5-8e23-42f43d9e41d0.jpg" /> be a cone metric space. The mappings <img src="6-2340032\5766f820-4b7b-4b55-843c-dac24b97de71.jpg" /> are weakly compatible iff for every coincidence point <img src="6-2340032\73182caf-b140-44d3-bd7a-b50da51aaf76.jpg" /> of <img src="6-2340032\95549180-4db1-4576-9b46-f097fe1122de.jpg" /> and<img src="6-2340032\0a530943-4566-4100-833c-44d49b7b9536.jpg" />,<img src="6-2340032\a6e807e5-3861-4aad-a27a-877292126e25.jpg" />.</p><p>Theorem 1.1 (Theorem 2.1 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref1">1</xref>]). Let <img src="6-2340032\0742d670-9990-4c32-9310-d618342b9d7c.jpg" /> be a cone metric space and let <img src="6-2340032\22b98214-583c-4888-8d83-e4429285cf33.jpg" /> <img src="6-2340032\85985455-03a7-4229-bfc8-29d7bd409e5e.jpg" /> be constants with<img src="6-2340032\c0b464ba-f0b4-46b4-8e82-4ce728a07333.jpg" />. Suppose that the mappings <img src="6-2340032\b412aec9-9b98-4e21-bee0-e8250dabd1e0.jpg" /> satisfy the condition</p><p><img src="6-2340032\8af9ad69-fb1c-417f-b7ee-a8ba568ae8d4.jpg" /></p><p>for all<img src="6-2340032\891bc9c9-fc53-4338-a28c-d428bc18c908.jpg" />.</p><p>If the range of <img src="6-2340032\0f3a6f09-dbce-4ac7-bc88-470355b5ada8.jpg" /> contains the range of <img src="6-2340032\823362c7-9f62-419a-8320-745cac9ba4a2.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\234c3d2c-1b53-4709-8bac-84b5a368e784.jpg" /> is a complete subspace, then <img src="6-2340032\b8ef11a3-9f0b-4a0d-9d74-8f11f664fe59.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\9a6084ce-766f-4a94-bc2f-d27f12d7ff0f.jpg" /> have a unique point of coincidence in<img src="6-2340032\0613b7c2-6281-4a2e-acc5-0ce38413e817.jpg" />. Moreover, if <img src="6-2340032\9a417963-6572-4694-af78-8f8d2640fdb6.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\1bb65319-801c-4219-b8d5-486ad8b6ff76.jpg" /> are weakly compatible, then <img src="6-2340032\51c4224c-6d60-4de4-98a3-f2263683abd9.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\f3cbd2a0-b8b1-4cf3-86bc-984ea8fa40ad.jpg" /> have a unique fixed point.</p><p>Theorem 1.2 (Corollary 2.1 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref1">1</xref>]). Let <img src="6-2340032\d0e159bd-6fb9-4a3c-9989-ffb446f0fb31.jpg" /> be a complete cone metric space and let <img src="6-2340032\2a0882a8-c7c8-4467-b947-8eb30f39ba20.jpg" /> i = (1,2,3,4,5) be constants with<img src="6-2340032\686db970-8805-454f-ac20-9eeaec58046d.jpg" />. Suppose that the mapping <img src="6-2340032\7411d186-fd48-4d00-a12f-427f58d1e8eb.jpg" /> satisfies the condition</p><p><img src="6-2340032\de82ff6d-5fcd-40e9-bf86-8bb734747f2b.jpg" /></p><p>for all<img src="6-2340032\e934d5eb-d4d2-4f47-bb9a-80f297423006.jpg" />.</p><p>Then <img src="6-2340032\b30f1d15-723f-44bb-96bb-98894578e4cf.jpg" /> has a unique fixed point <img src="6-2340032\1e1ddee1-0512-4896-9e36-baef3aed863b.jpg" /> in<img src="6-2340032\cfc053dd-eeba-4e78-83cd-14eaca9e741d.jpg" />.</p><p>Theorem 1.3 (Theorem 2.2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref1">1</xref>]). Let <img src="6-2340032\a56b238d-9b90-4f69-99a6-eb8de3b8e35c.jpg" /> be a cone metric space and let the mappings <img src="6-2340032\fccf5df0-d250-4933-b7da-ab06a07af008.jpg" /> satisfy the condition</p><p><img src="6-2340032\322b90b7-4010-4b25-89f8-3342efa87f72.jpg" />, for all<img src="6-2340032\6984bf8f-2516-4bf3-b88e-21fc29fd40e4.jpg" />where</p><p><img src="6-2340032\10052b3b-7fd1-4ece-91bc-c2c2f70deec8.jpg" /></p><p><img src="6-2340032\f68142dc-1564-42df-8031-05cfdad16ede.jpg" />,<img src="6-2340032\f235a64a-a6ce-4d1b-bd8e-8424c76a63be.jpg" />.</p><p>If the range of <img src="6-2340032\905772ac-909a-4805-98bb-117048c48961.jpg" /> contains the range of <img src="6-2340032\4bfa31f7-1996-419a-9c15-e5ebb24feab2.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\d6e1aaf7-789c-4f3a-8c61-7d9781a5eddc.jpg" /> is a complete subspace, then <img src="6-2340032\6190407a-f80d-4d89-b73b-a3023760ee2a.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\559eff17-7a80-468b-841e-29a99fcfc899.jpg" /> have a unique point of coincidence in<img src="6-2340032\25ab3cd2-aee8-4472-92f3-5e7f62294f8f.jpg" />. Moreover, if <img src="6-2340032\6bd08a6f-a855-4b15-bd91-3c993020c7a1.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\3f77001c-d3cb-4890-9e69-8996781f8eb7.jpg" /> are weakly compatible, then <img src="6-2340032\8de95c12-95a0-4d2f-9251-0fa228f9dec1.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\625c3340-20ef-4880-a841-3725af15c597.jpg" /> have a unique fixed point.</p><p>Theorem 1.4 (Corollary 2.2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.33414-ref1">1</xref>]). Let <img src="6-2340032\424ceb0b-8fa4-4bf4-b07f-81600139c6d2.jpg" /> be a complete cone metric space and let the mapping <img src="6-2340032\7834b457-5a49-4551-a95f-19a90c4ed974.jpg" /> satisfies the condition</p><p><img src="6-2340032\2495959b-9059-4611-984f-37b2e1b94f50.jpg" />, for all<img src="6-2340032\3d757386-f497-4b80-9c97-0c19352e58ab.jpg" />where</p><p><img src="6-2340032\1a7e9724-899d-43a9-a4f7-65444806c25e.jpg" /></p><p><img src="6-2340032\fa6c647e-0853-47a7-b543-d2d202d27568.jpg" />,<img src="6-2340032\f1ad6653-7d8f-42f6-b717-de44780e4d1c.jpg" />.</p><p>Then <img src="6-2340032\4d785dea-186e-4ca2-9fbb-78d410154f6f.jpg" /> has a unique fixed point <img src="6-2340032\ace8519f-5aef-4a16-9ae7-21b46f6738bf.jpg" /> in<img src="6-2340032\5fbb1cb1-5f1d-4386-b8e1-bd73d080e040.jpg" />.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Main Result</title><p>In this section, we show that that Theorem 1.1 (resp. Theorem 1.3) is a consequence of Theorem 1.2 (resp. Theorem 1.4).</p><p>Theorem 2.1. Theorem 1.1 is a consequence of Theorem 1.2.</p><p>Proof. By Lemma 1.1, there exists <img src="6-2340032\965da2cf-cbd4-4638-b707-ad68ed666e51.jpg" /> such that <img src="6-2340032\3fb73520-3b8c-4be1-b345-b86bded0ff6c.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\9cd5123a-7db2-4f59-bf4f-86a2a03e44c3.jpg" /> is one-to-one. Define a map <img src="6-2340032\e662ceb7-0b05-45e9-b575-fcebf4cb2151.jpg" /> by <img src="6-2340032\2622361f-b928-4629-9b02-79a64285740e.jpg" /> for each<img src="6-2340032\0b06efa4-bd8a-4d89-a954-b726d3bea360.jpg" />. Since <img src="6-2340032\3eda05d7-1cc2-4c65-b154-1be617d201dc.jpg" /> is one-to-one on<img src="6-2340032\9ac21802-8707-4289-9e9f-0262c1389479.jpg" />, then <img src="6-2340032\aa5dddc7-af6b-4354-9d01-13472fa2444c.jpg" /> is well-defined. Also, for arbitrary<img src="6-2340032\45ddf91f-fa62-4dbb-becc-293ebaea31f4.jpg" />,</p><p><img src="6-2340032\f16a10c2-ef08-4c27-8b78-5600775e6455.jpg" /></p><p>where <img src="6-2340032\75d32b7e-703b-4c46-8ad9-27e513909426.jpg" /> <img src="6-2340032\cde4a551-1337-4b0d-b941-5509d6f478b8.jpg" /> are constants with</p><p><img src="6-2340032\9e7dfa73-b5aa-4741-b327-6906409766ce.jpg" />.</p><p>From the completeness of<img src="6-2340032\e5ab7dfe-d92b-4c6d-b9fc-2a75576657eb.jpg" />, there exists <img src="6-2340032\06932e2f-83ff-4549-b1ea-0ffecd016b06.jpg" /> such that</p><p><img src="6-2340032\9fc85030-955f-4589-b13e-ca32fe55e513.jpg" /></p><p>by Theorem 1.2. Hence, <img src="6-2340032\1ada63a8-e2a2-4b87-b209-eafe436b445f.jpg" />and <img src="6-2340032\8f6f78e4-477c-4d65-b7ce-736f5b6928bb.jpg" /> have a point of coincidence which is also unique. Since <img src="6-2340032\579bfb23-9b49-48dd-a671-1727479363c2.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\06f81aa0-3d75-4976-8abc-6adb03abfbd4.jpg" /> are weakly compatible, then <img src="6-2340032\2c4dd17e-1026-4fc5-b837-804b9b784e19.jpg" /> and <img src="6-2340032\447ac79a-0d91-4daf-82e8-9c8c82d75e12.jpg" /> have a unique common fixed point.</p><p>Theorem 2.2. Theorem 1.3 is a consequence of Theorem 1.4.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>REFERENCES</title></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.33414-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">G. Song, X. Sun, Y. Zhao and G. Wang, “New Common Fixed Point Theorems for Maps on Cone Metric Spaces,” Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol. 23, No. 9, 2010, pp. 1033-1037. doi:10.1016/j.aml.2010.04.032</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="scirp.33414-ref2"><label>2</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">L.-G. Huang and X. 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