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Is this function necessarily a contraction?

If $(X, d)$ is a compact metric space satisfying $d(f(x), f(y)) < d(x, y)$ for all $x, y \in X$ such that $x \ne y$, is $f$ necessarily a contraction? I know an analogue of the Banach Fixed Point ...
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Fixed point of continuous function on compact metric space [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Prove the map has a fixed point Let $X$ be a compact metric space and $f:X\rightarrow X$ be a continuous function such that $d(f(x),f(y))<d(x,y)$ for every $x,y\in X$ ...
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Schauder's fixed point theorem for metric linear space

Is there an analogue of Schauder type fixed point theorems that can be used over a metric linear space. So, here $(X,d)$ is a complete vector space with metric $d$. If $C\subseteq X$ and ...
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Analogue to Fixed Point Theorem for Compact metric spaces

If $\omega:H \rightarrow H$ (into) is continuous and $H$ is compact, does $\omega$ fix any of its subsets other than the empty set?
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Prove the map has a fixed point

Assume $K$ is a compact metric space with metric $\rho$ and $A$ is a map from $K$ to $K$,$\rho (Ax,Ay) < \rho(x,y)$ for $x\neq y$.Prove A have a unique fixed point in K. The uniqueness is easy.My ...
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A corollary of Banach's fixed-point theorem

Can someone give me an idea how to generalize Banach's fixed-point theorem for complete metric spaces such that the constant contraction coefficient $c$ (as in $d(Tx,Ty)\leq c \ d(x,y)$ ) may be ...
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Opposite of a contraction mapping

I am taking Real Analysis and we recently went over the Banach Fixed-point Theorem, also commonly known as the Contraction Mapping Theorem which states: If $(X,d)$ is a complete metric space, and ...
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Contraction mapping does not hold in metric space

Let $X=\mathbb{Q}\cap [1,2]$, i.e $X$ is the set of rational number between 1 and 2 inclusive. We can consider $X$ to be a metric space by endowing it with the usual distance function, i.e for $x,y ...
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Contraction mapping in an incomplete metric space

Let us consider a contraction mapping $f$ acting on metric space $(X,~\rho)$ ($f:X\to X$ and for any $x,y\in X:\rho(f(x),f(y))\leq k~\rho(x,y),~ 0 < k < 1$). If $X$ is complete, then there ...
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Finding the fixed points of a contraction

Banach's fixed point theorem gives us a sufficient condition for a function in a complete metric space to have a fixed point, namely it needs be a contraction. I'm interested in how to calculate the ...