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This short chapter offers a few samples of applications of the contraction principle. It was already pointed out that the evergrowing list of applications of this fixed point theorem would fill volumes.
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Subrahmanyam, P.V. (2018). Applications of the Contraction Principle. In: Elementary Fixed Point Theorems. Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3158-9_6
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