Affiliations: Department of Mathematics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan | Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Arts, University of Gazi, Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey | Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Arts, University of Amasya, Amasya, Turkey
Note: [] Corresponding author. Duran Turkoglu, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Arts, University of Gazi, 06500 Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Arts, University of Amasya, 05100 Amasya, Turkey. Email: dturkoglu@gazi.edu.tr
Abstract: Existence of a fixed point for a fuzzy mapping satisfying a generalized contractive condition is proved. Our result, supported with an example, provide extension as well as substantial improvements of several well known results in the existing literature.
Keywords: Fuzzy mapping, fuzzy set, fuzzy fixed point
