Fixed point theorems in controlled rectangular metric spaces

In this paper, we introduce an extension of rectangular metric spaces called controlled rectangular metric spaces, by changing the rectangular inequality as follows: \begin{equation*} d(x, y)\leq\alpha(x, u)d(x, u)+\alpha(u, v)d(u, v)+\alpha(v, y)d(v, y), \end{equation*} for all distinct $x,y,u,v\in X$ with the function $\alpha: X\times X\rightarrow[1,\infty[$. We also establish some fixed point theorems for self-mappings defined on such spaces. Our main results extends and improves many results existing in the literature. Moreover, an illustrative example is presented to support the obtained results.