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The purpose of this paper is to define the notions of weak partial b-metric spaces and weak partial Hausdorff b-metric spaces along with the topology of weak partial b-metric space. Moreover, we present a generalization of Nadler's theorem by using weak partial Hausdorff b-metric spaces in the context of a weak partial b-metric space. We present a non-trivial example which show the validity of our result and an application to nonlinear Volterra integral inclusion for the applicability purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the concepts of contractive conditions due to Suzuki (Suzuki, T., A generalized Banach contraction principle that characterizes metric completeness, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2008, 136, 1861–1869) and Jleli (Jleli, M., Samet, B., A new generalization of the Banach contraction principle, J. Inequal. Appl., 2014, 2014, 38), our aim is to combine the aforementioned concepts in more general way for set valued and single valued mappings and to prove the existence of best proximity point results in the context of b-metric spaces. Endowing the concept of graph with b-metric space, we present some best proximity point results. Some concrete examples are presented to illustrate the obtained results. Moreover, we prove the existence of the solution of nonlinear fractional differential equation involving Caputo derivative. Presented results not only unify but also generalize several existing results on the topic in the corresponding literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]