Best Proximity Points for Some Classes of Proximal Contractions

Abstract

Given a self-mapping and a non-self-mapping , the aim of this work is to provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique point , calledg-best proximity point, which satisfies . In so doing, we provide a useful answer for the resolution of the nonlinear programming problem of globally minimizing the real valued function , thereby getting an optimal approximate solution to the equation . An iterative algorithm is also presented to compute a solution of such problems. Our results generalize a result due to Rhoades (2001) and hence such results provide an extension of Banach's contraction principle to the case of non-self-mappings.