Convergence and existence results for best proximity points

Abstract: We provide a positive answer to a question raised by Eldred and Veeramani [A.A. Eldred, P. Veeramani, Existence and convergence of best proximity points, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 323 (2006) 1001–1006] about the existence of a best proximity point for a cyclic contraction map in a reflexive Banach space. Moreover, we introduce a new class of maps, called cyclic -contractions, which contains the cyclic contraction maps as a subclass. Convergence and existence results of best proximity points for cyclic -contraction maps are also obtained. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]