<?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">AM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Applied Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2152-7385</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/am.2014.56095</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AM-44608</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>
 
 
  Some Fixed Point Results of Ciric-Type Contraction Mappings on Ordered &lt;i&gt;G&lt;/i&gt;-Partial Metric Spaces
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>ohnson</surname><given-names>O. Olaleru</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>Kanayo</surname><given-names>Stella Eke</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hallowed</surname><given-names>O. Olaoluwa</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, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Mathematics, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>olaleru1@yahoo.co.uk(OOO)</email>;<email>ugbohstella@yahoo.com(KSE)</email>;<email>olu20_05@hotmail.com(HOO)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>02</day><month>04</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>05</volume><issue>06</issue><fpage>1004</fpage><lpage>1012</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>2</day>	<month>November</month>	<year>2013</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>7</day>	<month>December</month>	<year>2013</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>25</day>	<month>December</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>
 
 
   We introduce the concept of generalized quasi-contraction mappings in <em>G</em>-partial metric spaces and prove some fixed point results in ordered <em>G</em>-partial metric spaces. The results generalize and extend some recent results in literature.  
    
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Fixed Points</kwd><kwd> Generalized Quasi-Contraction Maps</kwd><kwd> Bounded Orbit</kwd><kwd> Partially Ordered Set</kwd><kwd>  &lt;i&gt;G&lt;/i&gt;-Partial Metric Spaces</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction and Preliminary Definitions</title><p>The Banach contraction principle has been generalized and extended in many directions for some decades. Of all the generalizations, Ciric [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref2">2</xref>] generalizations seem outstanding. Cho Song Wong [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref3">3</xref>] dealt with a pair of operators in which the control functions in the generalized contraction maps are upper semi-continuous, while Ciric considered a single operator and took the control function to be a constant. If the control function is an upper semi-continuous, then the result of Ciric [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref1">1</xref>] is invalid. In Kiany and Amini-Harandi [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref4">4</xref>] , a condition is imposed on the control function and the mapping is termed a Ciric generalized quasi-contraction mapping. In this work, we introduce the concept of generalized quasi-contraction mappings in the new framework of G-partial metric spaces.</p><p>Rodriguez-Lopez and Nieto [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref5">5</xref>] , Ran and Reuring [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref6">6</xref>] presented some new results for the existence of the fixed point for some mappings in partially ordered metric spaces. The main idea in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref6">6</xref>] involves combing the ideas of an iterative technique in the contraction mapping principle with those in the monotone technique. In this work, the existence of a unique fixed point for generalized contraction mappings in ordered G-partial metric spaces is proved.</p><p>Matthew [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref7">7</xref>] generalized the notion of metric spaces by introducing the concept of nonzero self-distance and thus, defined a generalized metric space known as partial metric space, as follows:</p><p>Definition 1.1. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref7">7</xref>] . A partial metric space is a pair (X, p), where X is a nonempty set and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3cb32c38-bd4c-4a61-9e34-031175bb1df0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41053"><label>(p1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\6392da58-7c7f-4b5d-80d2-7b406ee308dc.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>(p2) if <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\73e58532-de13-42d0-b097-cd47aa964c27.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\95ff11aa-a59a-43cf-817c-4fd47f279c4e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41054"><label>(p3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\42c04e2c-f02c-4ca8-9428-43f3a6bdfa7d.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41055"><label>(p4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\6eecc0b4-90f1-4cf6-9bb3-7371722e1e3f.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>He was able to establish a relationship between partial metric spaces and the usual metric spaces when</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\060e99ef-8560-4b7f-a325-ae6519d286a9.png" /></p><p>Mustafa and Sims [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref8">8</xref>] also extended the concepts of metric to G-metric by assigning a positive real number to every triplet of an arbitrary set as follows:</p><p>Definition 1.2. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref8">8</xref>] . Let X be a nonempty set, and let</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\72fcac41-03b6-4f99-a0df-0e3087b7926d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>be a function satisfying:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41056"><label>(G1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\adfeaed1-b98b-42e6-8a17-08372380f8c6.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>(G2) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ba4bf7fe-47cc-4866-921c-a6d1fa0d1f5e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8b361f41-b7c1-4ab3-b1a6-ba792997309f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\f578adc0-6111-4fa5-8752-1ed55ec5e9f8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41057"><label>(G3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\70d15cd4-148f-4832-9629-777fbd9931c4.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>(G4) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8bad52ec-51df-43b0-94e7-3917b110976b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>(symmetry in all three variables)(G5) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ce8e89ff-1823-474f-a3fe-6897f395cad8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\18f9af82-be34-489b-a75a-8ba197820941.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (rectangle inequality).</p><p>Then, the function G is called a generalized metric, or more specifically, a G-metric on X, and the pair <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\182dd0f4-a7bd-4426-8018-7279e607bd5d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a G-metric space.</p><p>Mustafa [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref8">8</xref>] gave an example to show the relationship between G-metric spaces and ordinary metric spaces as: For any G-metric G on X, if <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ce7bf9da-5a1b-4d0a-93b9-83f8c00e7cd5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\906b5d30-9466-41bc-862d-4981b22ac05f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a metric space.</p><p>In this work, the idea of the nonzero self-distance of partial metric spaces and the rectangle inequality of G-metric spaces are combined to develop a new generalized metric space which is defined as the following:</p><p>Definition 1.3. Let X be a nonempty set, and let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\fdbe437a-49f2-4543-a508-8a3898a499e2.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a function satisfying the following:</p><p>(Gp1) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8c9750fa-c435-49ac-a890-daf1452d4c7d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>(small self-distance)(Gp2) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\24b20cd0-fe1a-4475-af46-111ff0ba6834.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>iff <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\fac687c2-cfb6-4a69-811b-1cfd921e36f7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> (equality)(Gp3) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6def143c-7c0c-4603-9426-229d94566b19.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>(symmetry in all three variables)(Gp4) <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\cb493dcf-ed48-40ae-a5b0-d5065bef760c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>(Rectangle inequality).</p><p>The function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9b8fea59-c44e-4559-b52a-5cd8c488c1f1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is called a G-partial metric and the pair <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\50114877-e9e5-4e86-8133-c99c5c1d4f5f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is called a G-partial metric space.</p><p>Definition 1.4. A G-partial metric space is said to be symmetric if <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\2dc148eb-d657-4be2-93e5-10855c6c223b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9613dc5b-26c4-4b13-92e6-a47fc294d573.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>In this work, we will assume that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\719439e9-d936-4467-80c2-323be500437e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is symmetric. The following proposition establishes the relation between G-partial metric spaces and (partial) metric spaces.</p><p>Definition 1.5. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9cfbc54c-cca0-4171-b74f-9b8be7286094.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a G-partial metric space. Define the functions <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\dfe0397a-ada0-4d82-b408-9ca23ed0c055.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7ec3773c-84d4-48c7-934a-e4ad6de9ee26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3ad43785-edfe-4acb-bba7-278aabf021f0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\524478a8-6157-451f-86d4-85e8529c7084.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Then 1) (X, p) is a partial metric space.</p><p>2) (X, d) is a metric space.</p><p>Proof 1) From (Gp1), we have that for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b89f5f21-51fc-4b41-8ea0-e3dd033527e4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\2461078a-ac2e-4824-a9fd-74e631083d7f.png" /></p><p>hence (p1) is satisfied.</p><p>If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7635c943-89b1-4093-8141-80a4d0e604c6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\51737dd6-5d04-4b08-b433-84d178c0c48d.png" /></p><p>By (Gp1), it must follow that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\92ef7954-a618-43fd-973e-09d991355175.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>From the symmetry of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a5abc5d1-a950-4647-8f4a-56f00a789cbb.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and by (Gp2), <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ad680e5e-95b2-4340-b228-2334dd818db4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>hence (p2) is satisfied.</p><p>(p3) follows from (Gp3) and the triangle inequality (p4) is easily verifiable using (Gp4).</p><p>2) Since (X, p) is a partial metric space, then</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\b676247e-552c-49f9-b246-91a7076f5d59.png" /></p><p>defines a metric on X and so <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\121ecd68-e4e0-43df-9ee5-188ee84260e1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> also defines a metric on X.</p><p>Example 1.6. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ba3600da-3900-4d46-b08a-11b766151188.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and define the function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\64146c3b-90de-4ff0-8a35-2009e079f019.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>as <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\551ca3ea-26fe-4261-be73-caf5e33dd806.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a195d133-bea7-42f3-859c-2a77941aa166.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a G-partial metric space.</p><p>We state the following definitions and motivations.</p><p>Definition 1.7. A sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a5aebca7-d910-4420-ae0c-32ae8de47a89.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of points in a G-partial metric space <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a46254e4-20eb-47dc-a3dc-6d3eb88491cf.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converges to some <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\457929d1-ae13-4f87-b055-4e8b6379e35c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> if <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6aa05365-6276-485f-ba55-c0644bb1453b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Definition 1.8. A sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7847ad11-da43-48a1-991f-2219451c0453.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of points in a G-partial metric spaces <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\af8764db-594e-4948-a79f-cf06cb6d126d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is Cauchy if the numbers <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a122163e-7d40-41e5-b16f-d5b5ed20d370.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converges to some <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\f836e082-8bab-448c-920c-615d11432b7f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as n, m, l approach infinity.</p><p>The proof of the following result follows from the above definitions:</p><p>Proposition 1.9. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\987048da-514e-4231-98f8-fa3b84aca3b1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a sequence in G-partial metric space X and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\86277b9e-7401-49a4-ab06-347c6c2506ee.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8d88468c-5b7a-42ef-b07f-85910a0efbf0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converges to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3aa5b368-da11-4405-b3c9-35b06b969651.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\24ca31a0-da02-41dd-a0bf-ce1fe55776ec.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a Cauchy sequence.</p><p>Definition 1.10. A G-partial metric space <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d17aff74-b676-4ac1-8df7-1fa21fcec4a5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is said to be complete if every Cauchy sequence in <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d9baf3fc-e702-4e24-b9ce-d91c83e40cbb.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converges to an element in<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9e1e94c7-6f44-47c4-a969-512f83aed30d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Definition 1.11. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref6">6</xref>] . If <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3a8e3d5f-69ab-405d-892d-953d3cf157c2.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a partially ordered set and T: X → X, then T is monotone non-decreasing if for every<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\954dfb5f-cd64-4e89-9e94-e81e29368d3b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7cd4ae34-d1de-47cd-981f-af372d24afb5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>implies<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\45556663-2f48-4117-92b3-6b474a683456.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Definition 1.12. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\86c90236-72a0-465a-b71a-5a3d13925ce6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a partially ordered set. Then two elements <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8bfa01b9-ee0b-423b-87e0-be8891ab1914.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are said to be totally ordered or ordered if they are comparable, i.e. <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\52ba20d1-3a85-4a3a-a53c-36173162ba72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>or<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9b23786f-3714-4fa3-a4ce-c4ae7cd112ae.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Gordji et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref9">9</xref>] proved the existence of a unique fixed point for contraction type maps in partially ordered metric spaces using a control function. Kiany and Amini-Harandi [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref4">4</xref>] proved the existence of a unique fixed point for a generalized Ciric quasi-contraction mapping in what they tagged a generalized metric space. The map they considered extend that of Gordji et al., albeit the space they considered was not endowed with an order. Saadati et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref10">10</xref>] considered the concept of Omega-distances on a complete partially ordered G-metric space and proved some fixed point theorems. Turkoglu et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref11">11</xref>] and Sastry et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref12">12</xref>] proved some fixed point theorems for generalized contraction mappings in cone metric spaces and metric spaces respectively.</p><p>In this work, the existence of unique fixed points of the two generalized contraction mappings below is proved in ordered G-partial metric spaces, extending thus the results in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref4">4</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref9">9</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref11">11</xref>] .</p><p>Definition 1.13. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9424ad60-c419-4025-a9b2-9e37f15f6509.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a G-partial metric space. The self-map T: X→ X is said to be a generalized Ciric quasi-contraction if</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41058"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\0d1dd569-3bb7-4480-b0f8-5e05d64daa30.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>for any <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\c6dac219-ff17-4ff2-a029-95759dd1d838.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d3b5d789-c487-44db-9a76-4d5ddf29d144.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a mapping.</p><p>Definition 1.14. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\4d66d0ed-b1a7-4ff5-be1b-7bc7e79c7baf.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a G-partial metric space. The self-map T: X→ X is said to be a generalized G-contraction if for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\323226d4-acb2-4c77-98b6-458982a097b1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41059"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\972fd89b-6417-454f-a218-18c6b5a0c147.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b8cd0729-49c7-4503-a2e6-f9eabcb6551d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are functions such that</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\1d178676-f686-4e6b-a65e-e66b11723eb7.png" /></p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Main Results</title><p>Theorem 2.1. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b5ff70b4-2e09-4199-b7ee-a23969382624.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a partially ordered set and suppose there exists a G-partial metric <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8d75db1c-4535-4de0-b5b7-406cf5503a81.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in X such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3d8c9238-0148-46de-ac82-8746bdb3e1a1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a complete G-partial metric space. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\bc051c39-4e9c-4094-b14c-76c4f09f0cb3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a self-mapping in X such that for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b7cb695f-aa07-4601-9070-978cf9e33bb5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfying <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8e114c3e-5c11-492d-8a72-69193d2690fd.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41060"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\b30424f2-a62f-4bfc-b902-810655b217cd.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\52950624-cc01-4074-a74e-bbef8c019662.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are functions such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41061"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\25905491-0350-4fb5-889c-e7ed4c7b01c4.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Suppose T is a non-decreasing map such that there exists an <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\307d4688-5598-4deb-af9b-c091b4bdcf3a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\fa7d3636-c46a-4bba-803e-f7f4f87d6f88.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Also suppose that X is such that for any non-decreasing sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\644f9b8c-b7ee-4708-a213-dcf38f921d6c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converging to x, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\bb2614cb-f907-452f-b200-42827805b177.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d562f590-eb34-4346-b976-906e97b74dd0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\24071099-1b3e-48ba-983f-c734c26bdc5e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\1cb136e6-b71f-42a5-8e37-03020bb6c90e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Then T has a fixed point. Moreover, if for each<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\52ce19e3-3b9d-4b67-a6d5-9dc4fe66d048.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\858eebaa-9f7c-4f54-a538-a31878981e7f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which is comparable to u and v, then T has a unique fixed point.</p><p>Proof. Fix <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\5b892b10-8af5-4fce-9a2f-7fc648c70fa7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\c100a7a8-02bf-423c-af59-b7442b840648.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be defined by  <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6ea3f3e8-e008-4de7-88d8-ec5b45075d33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\aeabd61e-7c3d-4402-9d6f-94f27bdb3349.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, &#183;&#183;&#183;,<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\45c111d5-4594-4563-a44d-1244f85159f2.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8fc1ea64-9d71-44b6-96e2-66eed7909102.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and T is non-decreasing, then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\0f8ed7ac-5a37-4e67-ad0e-e595cc9c9865.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>This implies that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ecb2ed8e-83d6-4f43-89d7-958a97f4b335.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for each<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\c6fdc449-1240-4f58-be25-fe5304fc0169.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\e89ed606-d3b9-46c1-bc80-1760a414cb05.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d2f6b440-7811-4c2b-b39f-3c5ef77cfde5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then by (3) we have</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\5ea761f7-661f-4b53-a992-aa44436ef16e.png" /></p><p>Thus, with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\4504ca50-b199-4cdf-b235-e0ea675916f7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> evaluated at<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\1a57dae9-d4a4-4450-94fc-02801aa06364.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we have</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41062"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\ce928d9a-4978-421a-a7a0-1af24147a387.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b54e2527-3f62-4e79-bf9c-53fd43395233.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then (5) becomes <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\edeed7b4-32a5-472e-ab48-5e5c42a49b60.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Consequently, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3fbea223-e2d1-4341-aa83-407e5bb9fd64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>For <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\512ceab5-c64f-4491-8c67-2b029dd61434.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> we get,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41063"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\63829dc6-08cc-4966-b337-e13eaaa762d1.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Take the limit as <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\db50b64f-cae7-48e0-8348-5188a87e8250.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in (6) yields <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\c2f5010f-8d5d-4e30-85ae-c18c355405a0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which implies that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7cae6707-96a7-43b5-b839-5517d361050d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a Cauchy sequence. Since X is a complete space then there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\e57871c9-ae53-41a0-9c78-5319c41a742d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\0b453fc4-4d24-4a27-abfc-5938985ab581.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converges to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\4c0e1857-3aab-4e55-961c-9bfb29d2fdd9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\ab12f853-fb21-424e-a0c4-c8a50ba71b17.png" /></p><p>Next we prove that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\c2d7d712-bef2-45e6-a2c1-630ee2357103.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the fixed point of T. From (3) and (4), since<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b6ccf362-1f93-4bd8-9036-53705df81631.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, for all<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8925f0e0-82aa-477f-a72b-5bb4107350fe.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>,</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\b2785b3b-974c-4ce7-8550-f098c97292a5.png" /></p><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\70c412ab-aeb2-4316-b05c-ec4d24622353.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are evaluated at <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b47853b6-4f75-4f25-a406-0ace2b5bc577.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Take limit as <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\e7f145e0-0b9f-4c5a-86f7-9838d44df703.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> yields</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\05040301-06f1-4f9b-9dd1-ba958d794ec0.png" /></p><p>Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\b6d10f94-7117-487d-8665-20ccc29437d0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\573be125-6e97-4e32-9888-e31ec4f60472.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Hence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\293f22d8-3e15-43db-94b2-ecc40143a7e9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>For uniqueness, suppose <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7d6ebab1-423c-4761-aec6-88e5e5373c84.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\083d71be-c12c-4018-b4fa-0fc63181a9ed.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are two fixed points of T, and there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3366b468-5724-4cbe-8fa9-3714dd75a035.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which is comparable to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9f4f7d7d-299c-4107-8d0c-26e3ebcea0aa.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\29e6295a-9b1a-4894-ba79-6fb7e204f049.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Monotonicity of T implies that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3c68509b-f969-4ede-a89a-ec9e8b0237d1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is comparable to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\377a5790-67f1-4848-9ce1-3fc6b5db8174.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7b29e0c9-3ab1-4271-bc1b-77b4c364e018.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\cbbf5ea5-05dd-4e4c-8fd8-ba452a7e0db5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Moreover</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\6a1a97ed-7171-46e1-a64e-9eccbc0ea922.png" /></p><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\bbfb98e7-f283-4eb8-8cdd-15865e62338a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are evaluated at <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\331a5f44-cdd5-40c1-b37f-8aafdd79f638.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Taking the limit as <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\757877e0-1553-4f28-8b20-cac1e2dcfd21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and by symmetry we get,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41064"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\8044f618-c056-4915-9312-7316bb27b432.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Consequently, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\248aa1f8-356c-4250-99b7-5d1958c186c4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Similarly, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a5c8958d-61b4-4652-92f3-d90a7b50ff36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Finally for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\67edbada-5e2f-4c5b-a1a9-5e721ab09438.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\fa0a73ac-e812-46b1-80b6-84990500021f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\cd62257a-8187-4791-8134-63d1d88d5cb8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> we have,</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\52fa1367-d4b9-462a-87cf-7807794f0dd2.png" /></p><p>Letting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7168e390-fdfe-400a-9546-036906030f24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> yields <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\452742f4-5012-46c8-9301-86fda1359304.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Hence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ba3f9426-e7ff-4233-ab2c-6d54f70a312e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Theorem 2.1 can be viewed as an extension of results of Turkoglu et al. ([<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref11">11</xref>] , Theorem 2.1) to the setting of G-partial metric spaces endowed with an order. The following corollary can be obtained:</p><p>Corollary 2.2. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\7997e668-7137-43ff-99a6-70d4cf6a665a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a partially ordered set and let there exist a G-partial metric <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\964ec84f-6c55-484d-a699-ef014006b649.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in X such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\59067e63-a77a-4ad5-949f-7569fabf323c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a complete G-partial metric space. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\5c784644-917c-4cab-a6bb-b631e62a04f0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a self-mapping in X such that for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\da01bf42-d656-472c-8e79-98eb5d5681cd.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfying <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\425ed549-0cef-4255-ae9d-32b81e8968a5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\af138599-646d-43d7-8475-0b0b1c055066.png" /></p><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\16e581ce-861c-4fbe-a4fe-128bfacb7976.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Suppose T is a non-decreasing map such that there exists an <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\0fadddff-8ce3-4c61-8026-907c2e8d538d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\e1c24a2b-7d50-4f2a-8b8c-c5f2a0a4d241.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Also suppose that X is such that for any non-decreasing sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\4b0e8e4a-722c-4b66-85f3-c96e1b404826.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> converging to<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\f349adaa-5f4d-4a49-8144-2a5af3e17258.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9a5008f9-a20a-4f27-bb91-345b64018db0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6989fbc8-ebac-47dc-9fe4-eb0b8fc6780a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Then T has a fixed point. Moreover, if for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\77297561-8b71-49f6-8fdc-391985f9815c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\52294cee-63fa-4627-9bdd-a0a899097930.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which is comparable to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\db7b1271-d720-40dd-ad8a-770e1230fb06.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8ab94821-6055-4ba5-8ad9-b27dc7756737.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then T has a unique fixed point.</p><p>Proof: Observe that</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\383c9481-57f6-4256-bd19-41f4b6c6d1a5.png" /></p><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\0c9ef002-529f-48df-9e82-c1425a5f3f2f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a47d80d2-8284-4882-8385-e67a460e69c2.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are chosen such that for any <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\e6069775-3039-4959-9e4e-036c28ea9011.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> one and only one of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9312e035-d00e-446d-bc8f-3f5550fe2908.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is non-null. In such case,</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\6803ba8a-4974-4bf3-b4ac-c3c9f6377ef3.png" /></p><p>Thus, the proof of the corollary follows from Theorem 2.1.</p><p>Theorem 2.3. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\cdf4544a-e5f1-48df-8e19-730d5325abdf.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a partially ordered set and suppose there exists a G-partial metric <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\f56cbf9e-1570-4c42-adbc-b08d5637b926.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in X such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\5b99dd18-daa8-473e-9f1b-df521b29004e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a complete G-partial metric space. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\72b79667-5fd4-4dd6-9270-78b8277d3223.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a generalized Ciric quasi-contraction map such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\28fa56be-2076-4d50-8583-d21f237bed74.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfies <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\57e8ef84-8e5b-44b7-b61c-78508ada952a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\26117e08-6196-40b5-8f9a-5f75d64f4eea.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for any <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\16ae702e-c28e-4955-8776-9b7ab0e0b8f0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\af68ef4c-da9f-42bd-9b4b-124ec7accaa4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Assume that there exists an <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\810ac9bb-f3cb-4dbb-a907-71c5dcaa06b7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with the bounded orbit, that is the sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\1f8ad81c-9be0-4a9e-bb7b-b582916fccbd.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> defined by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ed225dfe-8634-42bc-b9f1-25eb0edf570b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all n, is bounded. Furthermore, if T is an increasing map such that there exists an <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\1647a1a2-2ae3-4a46-9c92-86235ea1358b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\249a88a7-028d-499c-8a90-c98df698f23a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and if any non-decreasing sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6c1744e3-d3f6-44bf-a963-2a3c255f058b.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> satisfies <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9df07feb-075a-4887-80e8-47a7475c37de.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all n, then T has a fixed point. Moreover, if for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9b35996b-2873-4998-8ee8-76061db8dbf2.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d0994676-98d3-4f39-8963-9d1344687f50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> which is comparable to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8a38d811-1e99-42bc-8353-098d61cf4abf.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\5d514df5-56ff-4a9a-bea8-08d7838fcd35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then T has a unique fixed point.</p><p>Proof. Starting with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\47a62633-15f6-4786-8d6d-3e7671fd472c.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\1c6eaf3f-3843-46a1-8843-ea3e8981f856.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and with T non-decreasing, we have</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\2995568a-a63b-4a7c-976f-8dcfe694875c.png" /></p><p>We prove that there exists 0 &lt; c &lt; 1 such that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41065"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\fc229ced-27ee-4f92-afed-e236bedfb823.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>On the contrary, assume that</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\76133eb0-3b3a-4d2a-9716-caaa332c271c.png" /></p><p>for some subsequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\be793544-6196-4641-a628-08a62bb3820a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\af0ab520-ecf6-4063-9401-8956a3204ce9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Since by our assumption the sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\90e28e5b-9463-428a-ab77-c533023e74e1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is bounded, then the subsequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\02fbd9bc-4e17-46a6-9ff5-b02548645a4d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is bounded too. Since the sequence is monotonic and bounded then it converges. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\f38ac4c0-9f9c-4205-a699-278c7333a1ff.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> From our assumption, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\a45d7830-0bde-4967-9fb6-600ee4e8c1b1.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>a contradiction. Thus (8) holds.</p><p>Now, we show that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9e86a9a9-aded-4cd3-88cb-adf077fc58e8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a Cauchy sequence. To prove the claim, we show by induction that for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\0a285095-3f9e-402b-aa02-5bd8146f0dca.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41066"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\847f2380-6ae4-49d7-8293-e27a0df111d4.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where K is a bound for the bounded sequence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\2144c988-3a5f-4e77-b360-fa0ce937806a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> When <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8deba9e3-1a4f-4c2c-8278-8cf46260b5d7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\5ad32daa-f752-4c0b-ab5d-8d8e63ee6e9d.png" /></p><p>From the axiom (Gp1), <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\63003ba1-b9ec-447e-b3b1-7116a2782e18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>Thus</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\55436d6c-c656-40a1-991c-88f31aee4fb0.png" /></p><p>Thus (9) holds for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\19af46f0-1b94-4d08-b720-25b00e8d6cba.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Suppose that (9) holds for each k &lt; n; let us show that it holds for k = n. Since T is a generalized Ciric quasicontraction map,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41067"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\c75c6f4d-c167-428b-be81-0611522710db.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>From axiom (Gp1), <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\5f136f49-dbec-4aa9-acef-d771a6af535a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Hence (10) becomes</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\26700348-86a7-4822-a56f-ab3a62ffe68d.png" /></p><p>From the induction hypothesis, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\f485dc23-8f7c-442f-8521-4a62b8f757ac.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>Thus,</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41068"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\d130818d-60f9-491e-b5fe-45efb4f195be.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We also have from the definition of T and the induction hypothesis,</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\6d2226d0-1767-41d7-9086-49c128a0af95.png" /></p><p>The inequality (11) becomes</p><disp-formula id="scirp.44608-formula41069"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="htmlimages\16-7401824x\09b703c8-63c8-4901-b518-eb658a5735c7.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Repeating the same process,</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\8c3dffe0-f3da-4223-baff-e36d3e364290.png" /></p><p>Thus (9) holds for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6b64f4cf-a3db-429e-b620-6db54b66ac48.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> From (9) we deduce that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\86ee89f4-c5b1-43ec-b6c9-ad8f7df334e9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a Cauchy sequence.</p><p>Since X is complete then there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\4269210b-7214-4f39-b3c1-6adecf5eb2d4.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\68dd7f30-e237-4f2d-9726-20639d53803d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\4d4e4c38-8e3d-4a27-9973-fbfb785c6441.png" /></p><p>Now we prove that q is the fixed point of T. To show that, we claim that there exists 0 &lt; b &lt; 1 such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ead7e808-c154-4d6c-84c9-3d1301bbce44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>On the contrary, we assume <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\fba9dd1f-4140-4c92-aaa4-9d4a3a6a0ec2.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for some subsequences <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\3a055ef7-66f8-4c4b-af59-6ee0e0dd49e3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\0b68db0d-d8b4-4fcb-a1f0-f8a4b14a3c14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> then <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\dddbbef6-060c-404f-9dce-9dfb6712abfa.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> a contradiction.</p><p>Since T is a generalized quasi-contraction mapping we have</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\7d3357bb-08e8-4c3b-b38a-6c7b8f1a0624.png" /></p><p>Letting <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\54c21ffd-fa5c-412f-8e93-c70bed369b05.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> we have, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\cc96ef89-3bb7-4692-b08c-6b9c1d356622.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Also<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\fda869ae-a699-498c-a617-ae04c901902a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Hence <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\371e11f9-ee5a-40cc-bb93-d15f91b0def2.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Since b &lt; 1, q = Tq.</p><p>The uniqueness of the fixed point follows from the quasicontractive condition.</p><p>Theorem 2.3 is an extension of Theorem 2.3 of Gordji et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref4">4</xref>] to G-partial metric space in the sense that, if</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\02709dcf-687e-447b-8e8c-5f31b11ee3c7.png" /></p><p>in (1), then we get</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\36ca0d81-72e4-4e0c-a1b0-f73cf9c12de5.png" /></p><p>which is the G-partial metric version of the map of Gordji [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.44608-ref9">9</xref>] .</p><p>The proof of Corollary 2.4 follows from Theorem 2.3.</p><p>Corollary 2.4. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\40517e23-5f09-43d1-85f3-812495bbc1fc.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be a partially ordered set such that there exists a G-partial metric on X such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6a2496f8-3f28-47be-99fd-e82cb17499f0.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a complete G-partial metric space. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\45bbb8b1-d00d-4e5f-ada6-58f48fe94776.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be an increasing mapping such that there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8abd950c-ad9b-457f-8a8e-4074261477ea.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\5d129556-f4cd-4ab2-92a7-fe417fd14204.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Suppose that there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\2e05550c-7b2e-436d-bd99-cf30e916f06f.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\106d02ce-e48d-47ea-8c1b-36b29af988eb.png" /></p><p>for all comparable <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\92d29edf-82ed-452d-9e1e-386754d381bf.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> If T is continuous and if for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8b878170-6ff0-41e3-8109-f6fc9ddcab6a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> there exists <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\734422b1-9a13-4809-9869-27c1ab918967.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>which is comparable to x and y. Then T has a unique fixed point.</p><p>Example 2.5. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\07f2965f-be30-4d87-9aeb-2f2476d63129.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and a G-partial metric defined by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\68b54458-3881-4c3a-a551-a07797305424.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\0705f581-c164-4d92-9a7c-3d3caa68e218.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> On the set X, we consider the usual ordering <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\ab5a32ea-7031-44e0-92dd-520ab9e48130.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Clearly, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d84c159e-26d3-428c-86df-b459bb0af7ac.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a complete G-partial metric space and</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\d2b24949-3edd-4c8f-9dd0-dfad3ff58d9d.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a partially ordered set. Define a function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\623f729c-0ff7-456e-8626-71a54a37f262.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as follows: <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\8cdab6e6-e258-4246-b97d-a8af2fa81b05.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for all <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\f1b200de-edb7-479b-be2b-76736a74857a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Define <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\abf3fd0a-2371-436a-95ac-e659baa3633a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\22a1b2e4-85d2-4a2a-832a-cd1b82a007ee.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\9b5a7e6c-36f9-467f-8128-01c047c8fdef.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Then we have,</p><p><img src="htmlimages\16-7401824x\eb1737fa-42e0-4d22-99e9-ba5970330483.png" /></p><p>for each <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="tmlimages\16-7401824x\6b723235-8f4d-43a9-87a3-4689147ebe97.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Thus, all of the hypotheses of Theorem 2.3 are satisfied and so T has a unique fixed point (0 is the unique fixed point of T).</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.44608-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Ciric, L.B. 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