Abstract
It is known that any ordered semigroup embeds into the structure consisting of the set of all fuzzy sets together with an associative binary operation and a partial order with compatibility. In this study, we provide two classes of ordered semigroups in which any model in these classes is a representation of any ordered semigroup. Moreover, we give an interconnection of a class we constructed.
Introduction
The concept of fuzzy sets, firstly introduced by Zadeh [33] in 1965, is an important mathematical tool in dealing with uncertain data. Following his introduction, fuzzy sets were applied in various fields, such as engineering, control system, decision-making, and biology (see [1, 30]). In mathematics, fuzzy sets also involve many branches in pure and applied mathematics, for example, optimization, stability, number theory, and algebra (see [3, 35]). Their research in a wide range of disciplines highlights the benefits of fuzzy sets.
In algebra, Rosenfeld [28] was the first to apply fuzzy sets to groups. Kuroki [25] studied semigroups, a generalization of groups, employing fuzzy sets in 1980. The idea of ordered semigroups is one of the many generalizations of semigroups. Kehayopulu and Tsingelis [17] firstly investigated ordered semigroups in terms of fuzzy sets. They proposed the notions of fuzzy left and fuzzy right ideals. Moreover, the relationships between left (resp., right) ideals and fuzzy left (resp., right) ideals were provided. One year later, in 2003, the same authors examined the powerful results in fuzzy ordered semigroups. They showed that an algebraic system consisting of the set of all fuzzy sets of an ordered semigroup together with a binary operation and a partial order forms an ordered semigroup. They also discovered that this algebraic system is a representation of ordered semigroups (see [18]). These results demonstrate the significance of the conclusion made by Kehayopulu and Tsinglis in [18]. The representation result is analogous to semigroup theory in that any semigroup embeds into a transformation semigroup, and any group embeds into a symmetric group.
Numerous scholars have been interested in investigating fuzzy ordered semigroups for the past two decades due to the aforementioned noteworthy result. The research on fuzzy ideals in ordered semigroups has attracted much attention. Although it is impossible to list all such research here, a few are highlighted as follows. In 2005, Kehayopulu and Tsingelis [19] introduced the concepts of fuzzy bi-ideals in ordered semigroups. Left and right simple ordered semigroups were characterized by fuzzy bi-ideals. The prime properties of fuzzy ideals were studied in [32]. The notion of fuzzy interior ideals was introduced by Kehayopulu and Tsingelis in [20]. They demonstrated the coincidence of fuzzy ideals and fuzzy interior ideals in regular and intra-regular ordered semigroups. The semiprime attribute of fuzzy sets was applied to characterize left regular and intra-regular ordered semigroups in [21]. Regular ordered semigroups were described in terms of fuzzy left (resp., right, quasi-) ideals by Kehayopulu and Tsingelis (see [22]). In [23], Kehayopulu and Tsingelis gave a representation of fuzzy quasi-ideals by fuzzy left and fuzzy right ideals. In addition to the use mentioned of fuzzy ideals in the examination of ordered semigroups, several generalizations of fuzzy ideals are also applied to the study of ordered semigroups. Jun et al. [9] introduced the notion of (∈ , ∈ ∨ q)-fuzzy bi-ideals in ordered semigroups. The concepts of many kinds of (∈ , ∈ ∨ q)-fuzzy ideals were extend to (∈ , ∈ ∨ q
k
)-fuzzy ideals by Khan et al. [13] in 2012. Later, Khan et al. [11] and Ali Khan et al. [2] defined the concepts of (∈ , ∈ ∨ (k*, q
k
))-fuzzy ideals and
After the proof that any ordered semigroup can be embedded into a fuzzy ordered semigroup by Kehayopulu and Tsingelis in 2003, there was a growing number of studies of ordered semigroups through fuzzy ideals of ordered semigroups. However, there is no evidence to provide a relation between the algebraic systems corresponding to generalized fuzzy ideals and ordered semigroups. Therefore, the present paper aims to provide the readers with a relation between algebraic systems corresponding to various notions of generalized fuzzy ideals and ordered semigroups.
The structure of the current paper is as follows. Section 2 provides an introduction to ordered semigroups and fuzzy ordered semigroups. We are reminded of the embedding theorem, a significant result in the study of ordered semigroups by fuzzy ideals. A binary operation defined on the set of all fuzzy sets of ordered semigroups, a concept Khan et al. [15] introduced, is also recalled. According to some literature, this binary operation generalizes the operations that characterize ordered semigroups into classes based on linear inequalities. In Section 3, we examine that the binary operation defined by Khan et al. [15] is associative. As a result, two ordered semigroups are obtained and illustrated as representations of any ordered semigroup. Additionally, we discover a connection between each representation.
Preliminaries
All necessary concepts are offered. We are reminded of the ideas of fuzzy sets, ordered semigroups, and fuzzy ordered semigroups. Some auxiliary results are also stated in this section.
An ordered semigroup 〈S ; · , ≤ 〉 is an algebraic system consisting of a semigroup 〈S ; · 〉 and a partially ordered set 〈S ; ≤ 〉 such that for any a, b ∈ S, a ≤ b implies c · a ≤ c · b and a · c ≤ b · c for all c ∈ S. We often denote an ordered semigroup 〈S ; · , ≤ 〉 by
Let us say we simultaneously mention two or more ordered semigroups. In that situation, we can conduct the operations and relations of such ordered semigroups more precisely for clarity. For example, let
Let X be a set. A mapping fcolonX → [0, 1] is called a fuzzy set [33] of X. We denote the set of all fuzzy sets of X by F (X). Any α ∈ [0, 1] can be regarded as a fuzzy set of X designated by α (x) : = α for all x ∈ X. A relation ⊆ on the set F (X) is defined by
Kehayopulu and Tsingelis [17] applied the concept of fuzzy sets to study ordered semigroups by the following settings. Let
By this defining, the following result was obtained.
Theorem 2.1 illustrates that
In 2012, Khan et al. [15] considered fuzzy sets in ordered semigroups more generally. The following configuration was used to define a new binary operation on the set F (
The operation ∘ I was used to study ordered semigroups through various fuzzy ideals. This illustrates how the binary operation ∘ I generalizes other studies.
Let f, g ∈ F ( Let f, g ∈ F (
The following result can be easily obtained by the definition of ∘ I .
if 1 (f ∘
I
g)
I
= f
I
∘
I
g
I
.
In the next section, we construct new algebraic systems using the set of all fuzzy sets of an ordered semigroup. We demonstrate that these systems are ordered semigroups. Additionally, they are identified as representing ordered semigroups. Finally, there is a connection between these two models and the one that Kehayopulu and Tsingelis [18] proposed.
In this section, we construct two classes of algebraic systems through the binary operation defined by Khan et al. [15]. The structural properties of these systems are also investigated. From now on, we suppose that I : = [α, β] is a closed subinterval of the closed unit interval [0, 1] such that α < β.
As works of literature considering the operation defined by Khan et al. [15], we can see that the operation ∘ I is significant in studying ordered semigroups in detail (see [9–11, 27]). However, there is no evidence that this operation is associative. Our first result demonstrates the associativity of ∘ I shown as follows.
Case 1. If t ≥ f I (c), then t ≥ f I (c) ∧ (g ∘ I h) (d).
Case 2. Suppose that t < f
I
(c). If
Case 2.1. If t ≥ g I (d1), then t ≥ g I (d1) ∧ h I (d2).
Case 2.2. Suppose that t < g
I
(d1). Now, t ≥ [(f ∘
I
g) (cd1) ∧ h (d2)]
I
= (f ∘
I
g) (cd1) ∧ h
I
(d2). But, (f ∘
I
g) (cd1) = (f
I
∘ g
I
) (cd1) ≥ f
I
(c) ∧ g
I
(d1) > t by the facts that t < f
I
(c) and t < g
I
(d1). Thus, t ≥ h
I
(d2). This implies that t ≥ h
I
(d2) ≥ g
I
(d1) ∧ h
I
(d2). By Case 2.1 and 2.2, we have that t ≥ (g
I
∘ h
I
) (d) = (g ∘
I
h) (d) ≥ f
I
(c) ∧ (g ∘
I
h) (d). Therefore, by Case 1 and 2, we have
We obtain the following consequence by the definition of ⊆ given by (1) in Section 2.
It is easily observed that if I is the closed unit interval, then
To provide a connection between isotone if for any x, y ∈ S, we have φ (x) ≤
T
φ (y) whenever x ≤
S
y; reverse isotone if for any x, y ∈ S, we have x ≤
S
y whenever φ (x) ≤
T
φ (y).
a homomorphism from an embedding from an isomorphism from
A connection between
Let a, b ∈ S. Given x ∈ S. If
Finally, let a, b ∈ S. Suppose that a ≤ b. Let x ∈ S. If x ≰ a, then it is clear that f a (x) ≤ f b (x). If x ≤ a, then x ≤ b and f a (x) = f b (x). This illustrates that φ is isotone. Conversely, suppose that f a ⊆ f b . We observe that β = f a (a) ≤ f b (a) implies f b (a) = β. This means that a ≤ b. Therefore, φ is reverse isotone.
Altogether, we obtain that
By the above result, we know that
Since ⊆
I
is a quasiorder relation, it induces an equivalence relation ≡
I
defined on F (
By the above construction, we obtain the following result.
We observe that
The relationship between
Let a, b ∈ S. Next, we show that (f
ab
)
I
= (f
a
∘ f
b
)
I
. Let x ∈ S. If
Case 1. If x ≤ ab, then (f ab ) I (x) = β. Moreover, s ≥ f a (a) ∧ f b (a) = β. Thus, (f ab ) I (x) = β = s I = (f a ∘ f b ) I (x).
Case 2. Suppose that x ≰ ab. Then (f
ab
)
I
(x) = α. We illustrate that f
a
(u) ∧ f
b
(v) = α for all (u, v) ∈
Finally, we verify that φ is isotone and reverse isotone. Let a, b ∈ S such that a ≤ b. Since f a (x) , f b (x) ∈ I for all x ∈ S, it suffices to show that f a ⊆ f b . Let x ∈ S. If x ≰ a, then f a (x) = α ≤ f b (x). If x ≤ a, then a ≤ b. This implies that f a (x) = f b (x). Thus, f a ⊆ f b . On the other hand, we suppose that f a ⊆ f b . Then β = f a (a) ≤ f b (a). By the definition of f b , we have a ≤ b. This demonstrates evidence that φ is isotone and reverse isotone.
Altogether, we have that
Let f1, f2, g1, g2 ∈ F (
Similarly, we obtain the following lemma.
The following theorem provides a connection between two ordered semigroups
Let us suppose first that α1 ≤ α2. Put ɛ : = α2 - α1. Define φcolonF (
Next, we prove that
Finally, we demonstrate that φ is isotone and reverse isotone. Let f/≡
I
1
, g/≡
I
1
∈ F (
Now, we suppose that α2 ≤ α1. Put ɛ : = α1 - α2. Similarly, we can prove that φcolonF (
Altogether, by both two cases,
By Theorem 3.9, we obtain the following result.
Conclusion
In this paper, we construct ordered semigroups
Footnotes
Acknowledgment
The authors would like to thank the referees for their valuable comments. This work (Grant No. RGNS 65-097) was supported by Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (OPS MHESI), Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), and Rajamangala University of Technology Isan, Khon Kaen Campus.
