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The contraction principle in quasi metric spaces

I am researching contractive mappings and I need the article of I. A. Bakhtin "The contraction principle in quasi metric spaces"(1989) or at least part where explanation is given for ...
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Is this sum of nonexpansive maps itself nonexpansive?

For Hilbert spaces $\mathcal{H}_X$, $\mathcal{H}_Y$ and $\mathcal{K}$, consider a linear map $f\colon \mathcal{K} \oplus \mathcal{H}_X \to \mathcal{K} \oplus \mathcal{H}_Y$ that is given as a matrix $...
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Continuity of central point operation

Stanisław Mazur and Stanisław Ulam, in their joint paper, characterized the mid-point $\ \frac{a+b}2\ $ in a Banach space in pure metric terms (without algebra). This allowed them to show that any two ...