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COMMON FIXED POINT THEOREMS FOR NONSELF-MAPPINGS IN METRICALLY CONVEX SPACES VIA ALTERING DISTANCES M. IMDAD AND LADLAY KHAN Received 13 January 2005 and in revised form 14 September 2005 Some common fixed point theorems for a pair of nonself-mappings in complete met- rically convex metric spaces are proved by altering distances between the points, which generalize earlier results due to M. D. Khan and Bharadwaj (2001), M. S. Khan et al. (2000), Bianchini (1972), Chatterjea 1972, and others. Some related results are also dis- cussed besides furnishing an illustrative example. 1. Introduction There exists extensive literature on fixed points of self-mappings in metric and Banach spaces. But in many applications the mappings under examination may not always be self-mappings, therefore fixed point theorems for nonself-mappings form a natural sub- ject for investigation. Assad and Kirk [2] initiated the study of fixed point of nonself- mappings in metrically convex spaces. Indeed while doing so, Assad and Kirk [2] noticed that with some kind of metric convexity, domain and range of the mappings under ex- amination can be considered of more varied type. In recent years, this technique due to Assad and Kirk [2] has been utilized by many researchers of this domain and by now there exists considerable literature on this topic. To mention a few, we cite [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12]. Recently, Assad [1] gave sufficient conditions for nonself-mappings defined on a closed subset of complete metrically convex metric spaces satisfying Kannan-type mappings [10] which have been currently generalized by M. S. Khan et al. [12]. For the sake of completeness, we state the main result of M. S. Khan et al. [12]. Theorem 1.1. Let (X , d) be a complete metrically convex metric space and K a nonempty closed subset of X . Let T : K → X be a mapping satisfying the inequality