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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 182947, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2012/182947 Research Article Cyclic Contractions on G-Metric Spaces 1 2 1 ˙ E. Karapınar, A. Yıldız-Ulus, and I. M. Erhan 1 Department of Mathematics, Atilim University, 06836 incek, Turkey 2 Department of Mathematics, Galatasaray University, 34349 Istanbul, Turkey ˙ Correspondence should be addressed to I. M. Erhan, ierhan@.tr Received 29 June 2012; Accepted 1 September 2012 Academic Editor: Irena Rachunkova ˚ ´ Copyright q 2012 E. Karapınar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Conditions for existence and uniqueness of fixed points of two types of cyclic contractions defined on G-metric spaces are established and some illustrative examples are given. In addition, cyclic maps satisfying integral type contractive conditions are presented as applications. 1. Introduction The extensive application potential of fixed point theory in various fields resulted in several generalizations of the metric spaces. Amongst them, one can mention quasimetric spaces, partial metric spaces, rectangular metric spaces, D-metric spaces, and G-metric spaces. Perhaps one of the most interesting generalizations is the G-metric space. Introduced by Mustafa and Sims 1 in 2006, the concept of G-metric space has drawn the attention of mathem