1. Introduction
Serge [
1] made a pioneering attempt in the development of special algebra. He conceptualized commutative generalization of complex numbers, bicomplex numbers, tricomplex numbers, etc. as elements of an infinite set of algebra. Subsequently, in the 1930s, researchers contributed in this area [
2,
3,
4]. The next fifty years failed to witness any advancement in this field. Later, Price [
5] developed the bicomplex algebra and function theory. Recent works in this subject [
6] find some significant applications in different fields of mathematical sciences as well as other “branches of science and technology (see, for instance [
7,
8,
9] and reference therein)”. An impressive body of work has been developed by a number of researchers. Among them, an important work on elementary functions of bicomplex numbers has been done by Luna-Elizaarrar
s, Shapiro, Struppa and Vajiac [
10]. Choi, Datta, Biswa, and Islam [
11] proved some common fixed point theorems in connection with two weakly compatible mappings in bicomplex valued metric spaces. Jebril [
12] proved some common fixed point theorems under rational contractions for a pair of mappings in bicomplex valued metric spaces. In 2017, Dhivya and Marudai [
13] introduced the concept of complex partial metric space and suggested a plan to expand the results and proved the following common fixed point theorems under the rational expression contraction condition.
Theorem 1. Let  be a partially ordered set and suppose that there exists a complex partial metric  in  such that  is a complete complex partial metric space. Let  be a pair of weakly increasing mapping and suppose that, for every comparable , we have eitherfor  with , , orIf Γ or Λ is continuous; then, Γ and Λ have a common fixed point  and .  In 2019, Gunaseelan and Mishra [
14] proved coupled fixed point theorems on complex partial metric space using different types of contractive conditions. In 2021, Gunaseelan, Arul Joseph, Yongji, and Zhaohui [
15] proved common fixed point theorems on complex partial metric space. In 2021, Beg, Kumar Datta, and Pal [
16] proved fixed point theorems on bicomplex valued metric spaces. Usually, in a metric space, self distance is zero (i.e., 
), but, in partial metric space, the self distance need not be equal to zero. In this paper, inspired by Theorem 1, here we prove some common fixed point theorems on bicomplex partial metric space with an application.
  2. Preliminaries
Throughout this paper, we denote the set of real, complex, and bicomplex numbers respectively as 
, 
 and 
. Segre [
1] defined the bicomplex number as follows:
      where 
, and independent units 
 are such that 
 and 
, we denote that the set of bicomplex numbers 
 is defined as:
      i.e.,
      
      where 
 and 
. If 
 and 
 be any two bicomplex numbers, then the sum is 
 and the product is 
.
Definition 1. Ref. [5] Let ξ and η be elements in . If , then ξ is called an idempotent element. If , , and , then ξ and η are called divisors of zero.  There are four idempotent elements in 
, they are 
 out of which 
 and 
 are nontrivial such that 
 and 
. Every bicomplex number 
 can be uniquely expressed as the combination of 
 and 
, namely
      
This representation of  is known as the idempotent representation of bicomplex number and the complex coefficients  and  are known as idempotent components of the bicomplex number .
An element  is said to be invertible if there exists another element  in  such that  and  is said to be inverse (multiplicative) of . Consequently,  is said to be the inverse (multiplicative) of . An element which has an inverse in  is said to be the non-singular element of  and an element which does not have an inverse in  is said to be the singular element of .
An element 
 is non-singular if and only if 
 and singular if and only if 
. The inverse of 
 is defined as
      
Zero is the only element in  which does not have multiplicative inverse and in ,  is the only element which does not have a multiplicative inverse. We denote the set of singular elements of  and  by  and , respectively. However, there is more than one element in , which does not have multiplicative inverse, and we denote this set by  and clearly .
A bicomplex number 
 is said to be degenerated if the matrix
      
      is degenerated. In that case, 
 exists, and it is also degenerated.
The norm 
 of 
 is a positive real valued function and 
 is defined by
      
      where 
.
The linear space  with respect to defined norm is a normed linear space; in addition,  is complete; therefore,  is the Banach space. If , then  holds instead of . Therefore,  is not the Banach algebra. The partial order relation  on  is defined as: Let  be the set of bicomplex numbers and ,  then  if and only if  and , i.e.,  if one of the following conditions is satisfied:
- (a)
 , ,
- (b)
 , ,
- (c)
 , , and
- (d)
 , ,
In particular, we can write  if  and  i.e., one of (b), (c), and (d) is satisfied, and we will write  if only (d) is satisfied.
For any two bicomplex numbers , we can verify the following:
- (1)
 ,
- (2)
 ,
- (3)
 , where  is a non-negative real number,
- (4)
  and the equality holds only when at least one of  and  is degenerated,
- (5)
  if  is a degenerated bicomplex number with ,
- (6)
 , if  is a degenerated bicomplex number.
Now, let us recall some basic concepts and notations, which will be used in the sequel.
Definition 2. A bicomplex partial metric on a non-void set  is a function  such that, for all :
- (i) 
 , (small self-distances)
- (ii) 
  (symmetry)
- (iii) 
  if and only if  (equality)
- (iv) 
  (triangularity).
A bicomplex partial metric space is a pair  such that  is a non-void set, and  is the bicomplex partial metric on .
 Example 1. Let  be a set endowed with the classical bicomplex partial metric ,   ∀ , | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 
| 1 |  | 3 | 4 | 7 | 
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 
 Then, , , and  of Definition 2 are obvious for the function . Let , ,  be arbitrary.
Now,Therefore, . Hence,  is a bicomplex partial metric space.  For the bicomplex partial metric space  on , the function  given by  is a usual metric on . Each bicomplex partial metric  on  generates a topology  on  with the base family of open -balls , where  for all  and .
A bicomplex valued metric space is a bicomplex partial metric space. However, a bicomplex partial metric space need not be a bicomplex valued metric space. The above Example 1 illustrates such a bicomplex partial metric space.
Note that self distance need not be zero, for example . Now, the metric induced by  is as follows: ; without loss of generality, suppose  then . Therefore, .
Theorem 2. Let  be a bicomplex partial metric space, then  is .
 Proof.  Supposing 
 and 
, from condition (i) and (iii) in Definition 2, we get
        
		Suppose that 
. Then, we have 
. Now, let 
 such that 
. Therefore, 
 and 
. Hence, 
 is 
.    □
 Definition 3. Let  be a bicomplex partial metric space. A sequence  in  is said to be a convergent and converges to  if, for every , there exists  such that  for all , and it is denoted by .
 Lemma 1. Let  be a bicomplex partial metric space. A sequence  converges to  iff .
 Proof.  Assume that 
 converges to 
. Let 
 be any real number. Suppose
        
		Then, 
 and, for this 
, there is a natural number 
 such that 
 for all 
 i.e., 
. Therefore,
        
		Therefore, 
 as 
.
Conversely, assume that 
 as 
. Then, for each 
, there exists a real 
 such that, for all 
,
        
		Then, for this 
, there exists 
 such that
        
		Therefore,
        
		Hence, 
 converges to a point 
.    □
 Definition 4. Let  be a bicomplex partial metric space. A sequence  in  is said to be a Cauchy sequence in  if, for any , there exist  and  such that  for all  and .
 Definition 5. Let  be a bicomplex partial metric space. Let  be any sequence in . Then,
- (i) 
 If every Cauchy sequence in  is convergent in , then  is said to be a complete bicomplex partial metric space.
- (iI) 
 A mapping  is said to be continuous at  if, for every , there exists  such that .
 Lemma 2. Let  be a bicomplex partial metric space and  be a sequence in . Then,  is a Cauchy sequence in  iff .
 Proof.  Assume that 
 is a Cauchy sequence in 
. Let 
 be any real number. Suppose
        
		Then, 
 and, for this 
, there is a natural number 
 such that 
 for all 
 i.e., 
. Therefore,
        
		Therefore, 
 as 
.
Conversely, assume that 
 as 
. Then, for each 
, there exists a real 
 such that, for all 
,
        
		Then, for this 
, there exists 
 such that
        
		Therefore,
        
		Hence, 
 is a Cauchy sequence.    □
 Definition 6. Let Γ and Λ be self mappings of non-void set . A point  is called a common fixed point of Γ and Λ if .
   3. Main Results
Theorem 3. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and  be two continuous mappings such thatfor all , where . Then, the pair  has a unique common fixed point and .  Proof.  Let 
 be arbitrary point in 
 and define a sequence 
 as follows:
        
		Then, by (
1) and (
2), we obtain
        
Case I: If 
, then we have
        
		This implies 
, which is a contradiction.
Case II: If 
, 
, then we have
        
		From the next step, we have
        
		The following three cases arise, and we have
 Case IIa:
        which implies 
 and is a contradiction.
 Case IIb:
		From (
3) and (
4), 
, we get
        
		For 
, with 
, we have
        
		Moreover, by using (
4), we get
        
		Therefore,
        
		Then, we have
        
		Hence, 
 is a Cauchy sequence in 
.
 Case IIc:
		This implies that
        
		Since 
, we get 
. Using Case IIb, we get that 
 is a Cauchy sequence in 
.
 Case III:
If 
, 
. Then, we have
        
		Hence,
        
		For the next step, we have
        
		Then, we have the following three cases:
Case IIIa:
        which implies 
, which is a contradiction.
 Case IIIb:
		Then, by (
6) and (
7), we get 
,
        where 
. Hence, 
 is a Cauchy sequence in 
.
 Case IIIc:
		Hence, we obtain
        
		Using (
6) and (
8) yield
        
        where 
.
 Then, 
 we get
        
		For 
, with 
, we have
        
		Using (
9), we get
        
		Therefore,
        
		Hence, we have
        
Hence, 
 is a Cauchy sequence in 
. In all the above discussed cases, we get that the sequence 
 is a Cauchy sequence. Since 
 is complete, there exists 
 such that 
 as 
 and
        
		By the continuity of 
, it follows that 
 as 
.
        
		However,
        
		Next, we have to prove that 
 is a fixed point of 
.
        
		As 
, we obtain 
. Thus, 
. Hence, 
 and 
. In the same way, we have 
 such that 
 as 
 and
        
		By the continuity of 
, it follows 
 as 
.
        
		However,
        
		Next, we have to prove that 
 is a fixed point of 
.
        
		As 
, we obtain 
. Thus, 
. Hence, 
 and 
. Therefore, 
 is a common fixed point of the pair 
.
To prove uniqueness, let us consider 
 as another common fixed point for the pair 
. Then,
        
		This implies that 
.    □
 In the absence of the continuity condition for the mappings  and , we get the the following theorem.
Theorem 4. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and  be two mappings such thatfor all , where . Then, the pair  has a unique common fixed point and .  Proof.  Following from Theorem 3, we get that the sequence  is a Cauchy sequence. Since  is complete, there exists  such that  as .
Since  and  are not continuous, we have .
Then, we estimate
        
		This yields
        
		Hence, 
, which is a contradiction. Then, 
. In the same way, we obtain 
. Hence, 
 is a common fixed point for the pair 
 and 
. For uniqueness of the common fixed point, 
 follows from Theorem 3.    □
 For , we get the following fixed points results on bicomplex partial metric space.
Theorem 5. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and  be a continuous mapping such thatfor all , where . Then, the pair Γ has a unique fixed point and .  Remark 1. Similarly, we get a fixed point result in the absence of continuity condition for the mapping Γ.
 Corollary 1. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space and  be a continuous mapping such thatfor all , where . Then, Λ has a unique fixed point and .  Proof.  By Theorem 3, we get 
 such that 
 and 
. Then, we get
        
		Hence, 
. Then, 
 has a unique fixed point.    □
 Remark 2. From the above Corollary 1, similarly, we get a fixed point result in the absence of continuity condition for the mapping Λ.
 Next, we will present a new generalization of a common fixed point theorem on bicomplex partial metric space.
Theorem 6. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular  and  and  be two continuous mappings such thatfor all , where . Then, the pair  has a unique common fixed point and .  Proof.  Let 
 be arbitrary point in 
 and define a sequence 
 as follows:
        
		Then, by (
12) and (
13), we obtain
        
		If 
, then
        
		This shows that 
, which is a contradiction. Therefore,
        
		Similarly, we obtain
        
		From (
14) and (
15), 
, we get
        
		For 
, with 
, we have
        
		By using (
16), we get
        
		Therefore,
        
		Hence, we have
        
Hence, 
 is a Cauchy sequence in 
. Since 
 is complete, then there exists 
 such that 
 as 
 and
        
 being continuous yields
        
		Similarly, by the continuity of 
, we get 
. Then, the pair 
 has a common fixed point. To prove uniqueness, let us consider that 
 is another common fixed point for the pair 
. Then,
        
		This implies that 
.    □
 In the absence of the continuity condition for the mapping  and  in Theorem 6, we obtain the following result.
Theorem 7. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular  and  and  be two mappings such thatfor all , where . Then, the pair  has a unique common fixed point and .  Proof.  Following from Theorem 6, we get that the sequence 
 is a Cauchy sequence. Since 
 is complete, then there exists 
 such that 
 as 
 and
        
Since  and  are not continuous, we have .
Then, we estimate
        
		This yields
        
		Hence, 
, which is a contradiction. Then, 
. In the same way, we obtain 
. Hence, 
 is a common fixed point for the pair 
. The uniqueness of the common fixed point 
 follows from Theorem 6.    □
 For , we get the following fixed points results on bicomplex partial metric space.
Theorem 8. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular  and  and  be a continuous mapping such thatfor all , where . Then, Γ has a unique fixed point and .  Remark 3. Similarly, in the absence of the continuity condition, we can get a fixed point result on Γ.
 Corollary 2. Let  be a complete bicomplex partial metric space with non singular  and  and  be a continuous mapping such thatfor all , where . Then, Γ has a unique fixed point and .  Proof.  By Theorem 6, we get 
 such that 
 and 
. Then, we get
        
		Hence, 
. Then, 
 has a unique fixed point.    □
 Remark 4. From the above Corollary 2, similarly, we get a fixed point result in the absence of continuity condition for the mapping Γ.
 Example 2. Let  be endowed with the order  if and only if . Then,  is a partial order in . Define the bicomplex partial metric space  as follows: |  | 
| (1,1), (2,2) | 0 | 
| (1,2), (2,1), (1,3), (3,1), (2,3), (3,2), (3,3) |  | 
| (1,4), (4,1), (2,4), (4,2), (3,4), (4,3), (4,4) |  | 
 Obviously,  is a complete bicomplex partial metric space for . Define  by ,Clearly, Γ and Λ are continuous functions. Now, for , we consider the following cases: - (A) 
 If  and , then  and the conditions of Theorem 3 are satisfied.
- (B) 
 If , , then , , - (C) 
 If , , then , , - (D) 
 If , , then , , - (E) 
 If , , then , , Moreover, for , with , the conditions of Theorem 3 are satisfied. Therefore, 1 is the unique common fixed point of Γ and Λ.