%0 Journal Article
%T CHARACTERIZATIONS OF PARTIAL METRIC COMPLETENESS IN TERMS OF WEAKLY CONTRACTIVE MAPPINGS HAVING FIXED POINT
%A Ishak Altun
%A Salvador Romaguera
%J Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics
%D 2012
%I University of Belgrade and Academic Mind
%R 10.2298/aadm120322009a
%X We characterize both complete and 0-complete partial metric spaces in terms of weakly contractive mappings having a fixed point. Our results extend a well-known characterization of metric completeness due to Suzuki and Takahashi to the partial metric framework.
%K Partial metric
%K complete
%K 0-complete
%K w-distance
%K weakly contraction
%U http://pefmath.etf.rs/vol6num2/AADM-Vol6-No2-247-256.pdf