A fixed point theorem for weakly Zamfirescu mappings

In [13] T. Zamfirescu, Fixed point theorems in metric spaces, Arch. Math. 23 (1972), 292–298. Zamfirescu gave a fixed point theorem that generalizes the classical fixed point theorems by Banach, Kannan and Chatterjea. In this paper, we follow the ideas of Dugundji and Granas to extend Zamfirescu's fixed point theorem to the class of weakly Zamfirescu maps. A continuation method for this class of maps is also given.