n-TUPLED COINCIDENCE AND COMMON FIXED POINT RESULTS FOR WEAKLY CONTRACTIVE MAPPINGS IN COMPLETE METRIC SPACES.

In this paper, we prove results on n-tupled coincidence as well as n-tupled fixed point in partially ordered complete metric spaces for a pair of weakly contractive compatible mappings whenever n is even, wherein control functions are also employed. Our main theorem improves the corresponding results of Choudhury et al. (Ann. Univ. Ferrara 57: 1-16, 2011). We illustrate our main result with an example in arbitrary even order case which also substantiates the realized improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]