Some minimization theorems in generating spaces of quasi-metric family and applications

In 1976, Caristi [1] established a celebrated fixed point theorem in complete metric spaces, which is a very useful tool in the theory of nonlinear analysis. Since then, several generalizations of the theorem were given by a number of authors: for instances, generalizations for single-valued mappings were given by Downing and Kirk [4], Park [11] and Siegel [13], and the multi-valued versions of the theorem were obtained by Chang and Luo [3], and Mizoguchi and Takahashi [10].