Hutton [0,1]-quasi-uniformities induced by fuzzy (quasi-)metric spaces

  • Authors:
  • J. Gutiérrez García;M. A. de Prada Vicente

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Apdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain;Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Apdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Fuzzy Sets and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.20

Visualization

Abstract

It is well known that given a probabilistic metric space (Menger space) with continuous t-norm T there is a Hausdorff topology associated. This association factorizes through strong uniformities (or (@e,@l)-uniformities). Similarly, any fuzzy metric space (X,M,*) can be endowed with a Hausdorff topology @t"M (in the case of fuzzy quasi-metric spaces, a T"1 topology), and again this association factorizes through (quasi-)uniform spaces. In this paper we associate to each fuzzy (quasi-)metric space a Hutton [0,1]-quasi-uniformity U"M. This allows us to give a factorization of the previous association via Hutton [0,1]-quasi-uniformities. It is also proved that the topology @t"M is exactly the image under Lowen's functor @i of the [0,1]-topology induced by U"M. As a consequence, we get a class of Hutton [0,1]-quasi-uniformities which are probabilistic metrizable.