| Article ID: | iaor20131362 |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 5-6 |
| Start Page Number: | 1250 |
| End Page Number: | 1258 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Journal: | Mathematical and Computer Modelling |
| Authors: | Eshghinezhad S, Fakhar M |
| Keywords: | fixed point theory |
In this paper, some extensions of the Ekeland variational principle in metric spaces are given for a generalized pseudodistance. As an application we obtain Caristi’s fixed point theorem. Then, by using this result, we establish some fixed point theorems for set‐valued contractive mappings.