Fuzzy semi-preopen sets and fuzzy semi-precontinuous mappings J i n H a n P a r k a'*, B u Y o u n g L e e b aDepartment of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University of Technology. Pusan. 608-739, South Korea bDepartment of Mathematics, Dong-A University', Pusan. 604-714. South Korea
Received January 1993; revised March 1994
Abstract The aim of this paper is to introduce and discuss the concepts of fuzzy semi-preopen sets and fuzzy semi-precontinuous mappings. Keywords: Fuzzy semi-preopen sets and fuzzy semi-preclosed sets; Fuzzy semi-precontinuous; Fuzzy semi-pre-T o, fuzzy semi-pre-T 1 and fuzzy semi-pre-T2
1. Introduction and preliminaries Weaker forms of fuzzy continuity between fuzzy topological spaces have been considered by many authors [1,2,4,6,11,13] using the concepts of fuzzy semi-open sets [1], fuzzy regularly open sets [1], fuzzy preopen sets and fuzzy or-open sets [2]. Recently, Bin Shahna [2] introduced and investigated fuzzy strong semi-continuity and fuzzy precontinuity between fuzzy topological spaces, one of which was independent and the other strictly stronger than fuzzy semi-continuity [1]. Also Park et al. [12] studied some characterizing theorems for these two mappings and showed that fuzzy precontinuity and fuzzy almost continuity due to Mukherjee and Sinha [11] were equivalent concepts. In Section 2, we introduce the concept of fuzzy semi-preopen sets which is weaker than any of the concepts of fuzzy semi-open or fuzzy preopen.
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Using this concept, in Section 3 we define and study fuzzy semi-precontinuous mapping between fuzzy topological spaces. Let X be a nonempty set. Fuzzy sets of X will be denoted by capital letters such as A, B, C, etc. and fuzzy points will be denoted by x~ and yp. And x~ • A either means that fuzzy point x~ takes its nonzero value in (0, 1) at the support x and ct < A(x) (see [15]) or fuzzy point x~ takes its nonzero value in (0, 1] and ~ ~< A(x) (see [8]). In particular x, • 1A means c~< A(x) and 0 < ~ < 1. If for a fuzzy point x, and a fuzzy set A, we have • + A(x) > 1, then this case, which is denoted by Ming and Ming [8] as 'x, quasi-coincident with A', will be denoted by x, q A. For definitions and results not explained in this paper, we refer to the papers [1, 3, 5 8, 16], assuming them to be well known. The words 'neighborhood', 'fuzzy' and 'fuzzy topological space' will be abbreviated as 'nbd', 'f.' and 'fts' respectively. Simply by X, Y,Z we shall denote fts's (X, zx),(Y,~r),(Z, rz), a n d f : X ~ Y will mean that f i s a mapping from (X, zx) to (Y, zr). Also by Int A,
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CI A and A' we shall denote respectively the interior, closure and complement of the f.set A of fts. The following elementary results will be used in the sequel.
Theorem 1.1 [3, 16]. Let f: X ~ Y be a mapping, and A and B be f.sets of X and Y respectively. The following statements are true: (a) f(A)' <~f(A'), f - 1(B') = f - ~(B)'. (b) A <~f-I(f(A)), f ( f - ~ ( B ) ) <~ B. (c) l f f is injective, then f - 1(f(A)) = A. (d) If f is surjective, then f ( f - I(B)) = B. (e) l f f is bijective, then f(A)' = f(A'). Theorem 1.2 [16,1. If A is a f.set of X such that A(x) ~ Ofor x ~ X, then