Fixed points of convex and generalized convex contractions

Istraˇ\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\check{a}$$\end{document}tescu (Lib Math 1:151–163, 1981) introduced the notion of convex contraction. He proved that each convex contraction has a unique fixed point on a complete metric space. In this paper we study fixed points of convex contraction and generalized convex contractions. We show that the assumption of continuity condition in [11] can be replaced by a relatively weaker condition of k-continuity under various settings. On this way a new and distinct solution to the open problem of Rhoades (Contemp Math 72:233–245, 1988) is found. Several examples are given to illustrate our results.