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In this paper the notion of a contraction mapping on a probabilistic metric space is introduced, and several fixed-point theorems for such mappings are proved.
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Sehgal, V.M., Bharucha-Reid, A.T. Fixed points of contraction mappings on probabilistic metric spaces. Math. Systems Theory 6, 97–102 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01706080
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