Edelstein's fixed point theorem in topological spaces

An extension to topological spaces of a wellknown fixed point theorem of M. Edelstein for contractive mappings on metric spaces is presented. Results based on the generalized Edelstein's theorem are also established concerning the existence of fixed points of continuous selfmaps on a topological space. As a special case a compact starshaped subset of a linear topological space is considered. The results extend the fixed point theoremsfor nonexpansive mappings on a compact metric space of L.F.Guseman, Jr. and B.C. Peters, Jr.