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On Fuzzy -Contractive Mappings in Fuzzy Metric Spaces

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We answer into affirmative an open question raised by A. Razani in 2005. An essential role in our proofs is played by the separation axiom in the definition of a fuzzy metric space in the sense of George and Veeramani.

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Miheţ, D. On Fuzzy -Contractive Mappings in Fuzzy Metric Spaces. Fixed Point Theory Appl 2007, 087471 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/87471

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