## Abstract and Applied Analysis

### On Asymptotic Pointwise Contractions in Modular Metric Spaces

Afrah A. N. Abdou

#### Abstract

In this paper we study and prove some new fixed points theorems for pointwise and asymptotic pointwise contraction mappings in modular metric spaces.

#### Article information

Source
Abstr. Appl. Anal., Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 501631, 7 pages.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 27 February 2014

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aaa/1393511922

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1155/2013/501631

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3064540

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1292.54020

#### Citation

Abdou, Afrah A. N. On Asymptotic Pointwise Contractions in Modular Metric Spaces. Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2013 (2013), Article ID 501631, 7 pages. doi:10.1155/2013/501631. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aaa/1393511922

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