"The early developments in fixed point theory on b-metric spaces: a brief survey and some important related aspects"

Abstract

"A very impressive research work has been devoted in the last two decades to obtaining fixed point theorems in quasimetric spaces (also called b-metric spaces). Some incorrect and incomplete references with respect to the early developments on fixed point theory in b-metric spaces are though perpetually taking over from the existing publications to the new ones. Starting from this fact, our main aim in this note is threefold: (1) to briefly survey the early developments in the fixed point theory on quasimetric spaces (b-metric spaces); (2) to collect some relevant bibliography related to this topic; (3) to discuss some other aspects of current interest in the fixed point theory on quasimetric spaces (b-metric spaces)."