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It is well known that the concept of a best proximity point includes that of a fixed point as a special case. In this paper, we show that the best proximity point theorems of Basha and Shahzad (Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2012:42, ) and of Fernández-León (J. Nonlinear Convex Anal. 15(2):313-324, ) can be regarded as a fixed point theorem for multivalued mappings which is modified as regards the results of Mizoguchi and Takahashi (J. Math. Anal. Appl. 141(1):177-188, ) and of Kada et al. (Math. Jpn. 44(2):381-391, ). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We study self-mappings on complete metric spaces, which we refer to as higher-order Lipschitz mappings. These mappings generalise Lipschitz mappings, the latter which are equivalent to first-order Lipschitz mappings studied in this paper. The main result of this paper is to extend the Banach fixed point theorem (and an often-cited generalisation) to higher-order contraction mappings. We also present results on the problem of local Lipschitzity of these higher-order Lipschitz mappings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]