Contractibility and fixed point property: the case of Khalimsky topological spaces

*Correspondence: [email protected] Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics Education, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju-City, Jeonbuk 54896, Republic of Korea Abstract Based on the notions of both contractibility and local contractibility, many works were done in fixed point theory. The present paper concerns a relation between digital contractibility and the existence of fixed points of digitally continuous maps. In this paper, establishing a new digital homotopy named by a K-homotopy in the category of Khalimsky topological spaces, we prove that in digital topology, whereas contractibility implies local contractibility, the converse does not hold. Furthermore, we address the following problem, which remains open. Let X be a Khalimsky (Kfor short) topological space with K-contractibility. Then we may pose the following question: does the space X have the fixed point property (FPP)? In this paper, we prove that not every K-topological space with K-contractibility has the FPP.