Extended Branciari quasi-b-distance spaces, implicit relations and application to nonlinear matrix equations

This study introduces extended Branciari quasi-b-distance spaces, a novel implicit contractive condition in the underlying space, and basic fixed-point results, a weak well-posed property, a weak limit shadowing property and generalized Ulam–Hyers stability. The given notions and results are exemplified by suitable models. We apply these results to obtain a sufficient condition ensuring the existence of a unique positive-definite solution of a nonlinear matrix equation (NME) $\mathcal{X}=\mathcal{Q} + \sum_{i=1}^{k}\mathcal{A}_{i}^{*} \mathcal{G(X)}\mathcal{A}_{i}$ X = Q + ∑ i = 1 k A i ∗ G ( X ) A i , where $\mathcal{Q}$ Q is an $n\times n$ n × n Hermitian positive-definite matrix, $\mathcal{A}_{1}$ A 1 , $\mathcal{A}_{2}$ A 2 , …, $\mathcal{A}_{m}$ A m are $n \times n$ n × n matrices, and $\mathcal{G}$ G is a nonlinear self-mapping of the set of all Hermitian matrices that are continuous in the trace norm. We demonstrate this sufficient condition for the NME $\mathcal{X}= \mathcal{Q} +\mathcal{A}_{1}^{*}\mathcal{X}^{1/3} \mathcal{A}_{1}+\mathcal{A}_{2}^{*}\mathcal{X}^{1/3} \mathcal{A}_{2}+ \mathcal{A}_{3}^{*}\mathcal{X}^{1/3}\mathcal{A}_{3}$ X = Q + A 1 ∗ X 1 / 3 A 1 + A 2 ∗ X 1 / 3 A 2 + A 3 ∗ X 1 / 3 A 3 , and visualize this through convergence analysis and a solution graph.