Caristi's fixed point theorem and its equivalences in fuzzy metric spaces

summary:In this article, we extend Caristi's fixed point theorem, Ekeland's variational principle and Takahashi's maximization theorem to fuzzy metric spaces in the sense of George and Veeramani [A. George , P. Veeramani, On some results in fuzzy metric spaces, Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 64 (1994) 395-399]. Further, a direct simple proof of the equivalences among these theorems is provided