On some theorems of Tarafdar

Abstract

In a recent paper (Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 13 (1975), 241–245), Tarafdar has considered nonexpansive self mappings on a subset X of a locally convex vector space E and proved an extension to E of a theorem of Göhde. The purpose of this paper is to show that the condition f: X → X, in Göhde-Tarafdar's Theorem in the above paper, may be weakened to f: X → E with f(∂X) ⊆ X. As a consequence, it is further shown that an extension to E of a well-known common fixed point theorem of Belluce and Kirk due to Tarafdar remains true on domains that are not necessarily bounded or quasi-complete.