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Generalized IFSs on Noncompact Spaces

2010, Fixed Point Theory and Applications

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to continue the research work that we have done in a previous paper published in this journal see Mihail and Miculescu, 2008. We introduce the notion of GIFS, which is a family of functions f 1 ,. .. , f n : X m → X, where X, d is a complete metric space in the above mentioned paper the case when X, d is a compact metric space was studied and m, n ∈ N. In case that the functions f k are Lipschitz contractions, we prove the existence of the attractor of such a GIFS and explore its properties among them we give an upper bound for the Hausdorff-Pompeiu distance between the attractors of two such GIFSs, an upper bound for the Hausdorff-Pompeiu distance between the attractor of such a GIFS, and an arbitrary compact set of X and we prove its continuous dependence in the f k 's. Finally we present some examples of attractors of GIFSs. The last example shows that the notion of GIFS is a natural generalization of the notion of IFS.