Proposition
Contraction criterion on a closed norm ball
Separate quantitative conditions ensuring that a map preserves a complete ball and contracts it.
Statement
Let be a Banach space, , and . Suppose satisfies
Then , since . The ball is complete, so the contraction theorem gives a unique fixed point in it.
Small-parameter form
For , it suffices that and . A contraction estimate without the self-map condition is insufficient to apply the theorem on the ball.