Interpolative contractions and discontinuity at fixed point

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate new solutions to the Rhoades' discontinuity problem on the existence of a self-mapping which has a fixed point but is not continuous at the fixed point on metric spaces. To do this, we use the number defined as n(x,y)=[d(x,y)]β[d(x,Ty)]α[d(x,Ty)]γ[(d(x,Ty)+d(x,Ty))/2]1−α−β−γ, where α , β , γ ∈ ( 0,1 ) with α + β + γ < 1 and some interpolative type contractive conditions. Also, we investigate some geometric properties of Fix(T) under some interpolative type contractions and prove some fixed-disc (resp. fixed-circle) results. Finally, we present a new application to the discontinuous activation functions.