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Contraction of a Metric Space

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Let (X,d)(X,d) be a metric space, and let T:X→XT:X\to X be a map. We say that TT is a contraction if there exists a real number λ\lambda satisfying

0≤λ<10\le \lambda<1

such that

d(T(x),T(y))≤λ d(x,y)d(T(x),T(y))\le \lambda\, d(x,y)

for every x,y∈Xx,y\in X.

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