On Bilateral Contractions

In this manuscript, we introduce a new type of contraction, bilateral contraction which merges two significant approaches in the fixed point theory: Caristi type contractions and Jaggi type contractions. The principal aim of the main result is to enrich the literature by combining the techniques of the mentioned two celebrated results that belong to Jaggi and Caristi. We consider an example to indicate the validity and genuine nature of the main result.