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This is the fixed point theorem for summably Lipschitz iterates. Put $x_n=A^n{x}_0$ and $d=\Vert x_1-x_0\Vert$. For $n\ge 1$,Consequently, for $m>n\ge 1$,Summability makes the tails tend to zero, so $(x_n)$ is a Cauchy sequence. Since $M$ is closed in a Banach space, $x_n\to x\in M$. The $n=1$ hypothesis makes $A$ a Lipschitz map, hence continuous; passing to the limit in $x_{n+1}=A{x}_n$ gives $x=Ax$.

If $y$ is another fixed point, then $\Vert x-y\Vert \le {\alpha }_n\Vert x-y\Vert$ for every $n$. Since ${\alpha }_n\to 0$, eventually ${\alpha }_n<1$ and thus $x=y$. Finally let $m\to \infty$ in the tail estimate:The map itself need not be a contraction mapping; its successive iterates provide the summable error bound.