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In this paper, we introduce the new concept of <TEX>${\omega}-D^*$</TEX>-distance on a <TEX>$D^*$</TEX>-metric space and prove a non-convex minimization theorem which improves the result of Caristi[1], <TEX>${\'{C}}iri{\'{c}}$</TEX>[2], Ekeland[4], Kada et al.[5] and Ume[8, 9].
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