| Article ID: | iaor20123750 | 
| Volume: | 153 | 
| Issue: | 2 | 
| Start Page Number: | 298 | 
| End Page Number: | 305 | 
| Publication Date: | May 2012 | 
| Journal: | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | 
| Authors: | Abkar A, Gabeleh M | 
| Keywords: | mapping | 
We study some minimization problems for noncyclic mappings in metric spaces. We then apply the solution to obtain some results in the theory of analytic functions.