A categorical accommodation of various notions of fuzzy topology

  • Authors:
  • S. E. Rodabaugh

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Fuzzy Sets and Systems
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Different definitions of fuzzy topology have been stated and developed in the literature but have not been satisfactorily related to each other and to ordinary topology. To remedy this, a new fuzzy topological category FUZZ is defined: it is a significant generalization of previous definitions; it is the simplest setting yet constructed into which ordinary topology and these previous definitions may be placed (by identifying each with a different subcategory of FUZZ); it therefore allows us to conveniently analyze the relative merits of previous definitions, give coherence to known results, and indicate appropriate directions for future development; and it generates and may be viewed as both including and included in categories of fuzzy topological spaces which exhibit higher order fuzziness.