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IJMMS 30:10 (2002) 627–635 PII. S0161171202007536 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. COINCIDENCES AND FIXED POINTS OF RECIPROCALLY CONTINUOUS AND COMPATIBLE HYBRID MAPS S. L. SINGH and S. N. MISHRA Received 16 February 2001 and in revised form 27 March 2001 It is proved that a pair of reciprocally continuous and nonvacuously compatible single- valued and multivalued maps on a metric space possesses a coincidence. Besides address- ing two historical problems in fixed point theory, this result is applied to obtain new general coincidence and fixed point theorems for single-valued and multivalued maps on metric spaces under tight minimal conditions. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H10. 1. Introduction. The concept of compatible maps has proven useful for general- izing results in the context of metric fixed point theory for continuous single-valued and multivalued maps (cf. [1, 2, 4, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 30, 31]). Recently, recip- rocal continuity for a pair of (discontinuous) single-valued maps has been introduced in [23] and promoted as a means to comprehensive results. First, we introduce reciprocal continuity for a hybrid pair of single-valued and mul- tivalued maps, and emulate the joint merits of reciprocal continuity and compati- bility of a hybrid pair in the setting of metric spaces. We give a general principle (Theorem 2.8) stating that nonvacuously compatible and reciprocally continuous hy- brid pair on a metric space has a coincidence. This seems to be of vital interest in view of a historically significant and negatively settled problem that a pair of continuous and commuting self-maps on the closed interval [0, 1] has a common fixed point (see [3, 13, 17]) and that continuous and commuting maps on a complete metr