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Abstract

Let and be nonempty subsets of a metric space with the distance function d, and is a given non-self-mapping. The purpose of this paper is to solve the nonlinear programming problem that consists in minimizing the real-valued function , where belongs to a new class of contractive mappings. We provide also an iterative algorithm to find a solution of such optimization problems.