An original coupled coincidence point result for a pair of mappings without MMP

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to establish a coupled coincidence point theorem for a pair of mappings without MMP (mixed monotone property) in metric spaces endowed with partial order, which is not an immediate consequence of a well-known theorem in the literature. Also, we present a result on the existence and uniqueness of coupled common fixed points. The results presented in the paper generalize and extend some of the results of Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham (Nonlinear Anal. 65:1379-1393, 2006), Choudhury, Metiya and Kundu (Ann. Univ. Ferrara 57:1-16, 2011), Harjani, Lopez and Sadarangani (Nonlinear Anal. 74:1749-1760, 2011) and of Luong and Thuan (Bull. Math. Anal. Appl. 2:16-24, 2010) for the mappings having no MMP. We introduce an example that there exists a common coupled fixed point of the mappings g and F such that F does not satisfy the g-mixed monotone property, and also g and F do not commute.