The Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-metric

  • Authors:
  • J. Rodríguez-López;S. Romaguera;J. M. Sánchez-Álvarez

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain;Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain;Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Fuzzy Sets and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Removing the condition of symmetry in the notion of a fuzzy (pseudo)metric, in Kramosil and Michalek's sense, one has the notion of a fuzzy quasi-(pseudo-)metric. Then for each fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric on a set X we construct a fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric on the collection of all nonempty subsets of X, called the Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric. We investigate several properties of this structure and present several illustrative examples as well as an application to the domain of words. The notion of Hausdorff fuzzy quasi-pseudo-metric when quasi-pseudo-metric fuzziness is considered in the sense of George and Veeramani is also discussed.