The Meir–Keeler Fixed Point Theorem for Quasi-Metric Spaces and Some Consequences

Abstract

We obtain quasi-metric versions of the famous Meir–Keeler fixed point theorem from which we deduce quasi-metric generalizations of Boyd–Wong’s fixed point theorem. In fact, one of these generalizations provides a solution for a question recently raised in the paper “On the fixed point theory in bicomplete quasi-metric spaces”, J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 2016, 9, 5245–5251. We also give an application to the study of existence of solution for a type of recurrence equations associated to certain nonlinear difference equations.