posted on 2025-05-11, 07:52authored byJ. M. Borwein, W. Z. Huang
We prove (something more general than) the result that a convex subset of a Banach space is closed if and only if every contraction of the space leaving the convex set invariant has a fixed point in that subset. This implies that a normed space is complete if and only if every contraction on the space has a fixed point. We also show that these results fail if "convex" is replaced by "Lipschitz-connected" or "starshaped".
History
Journal title
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Volume
87
Issue
2
Pagination
246-250
Publisher
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Language
en, English
College/Research Centre
Faculty of Science and Information Technology
School
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Rights statement
First published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society in Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 246-250, 1983, published by the American Mathematical Society.