Dan Ye-xing

(Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China)

The Degree of the Symmetry of Fuzzy Relations①

Dan Ye-xing

(Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China)

In this paper, the degree of the symmetry of fuzzy relations is investigated based on the fuzzy equality of fuzzy relations.

fuzzy relation, degree of the symmetry, symmetric fuzzy relation, fuzzy equality

1 Introduction

Let & be a left continuous t-norm. There is a natural fuzzy equality on the fuzzy powerset [0,1]Xgivenby

GivenafuzzyrelationRonasetX,itissymmetricif,andonlyifR=Rop,whereRopisthedualityofR.However,whenRisnotsymmetric,wecantalkaboutthedegreeofthatRandRopareequal.ThedegreecanberegardedasthedegreeofthesymmetryofR[3, 4].

NoticethatafuzzyrelationRonasetXissymmetricifandonlyifthereisasymmetricfuzzyrelation,sayS,suchthatR=S.Ifwehavethefuzzyequalityonfuzzyrelationsinsteadofthecrispequality,wegetanotherapproachtodefinethedegreeofthesymmetryoffuzzyrelations(seeDefinition1).

In this paper, we will study the degree of the symmetry of fuzzy relations defined by the second approach. The contents are arranged as follows. In Section 2, we recall some basic notions of left continuous t-norms and fuzzy equalities. In Section 3, the main results are proved.

2 Preliminaries

First, we recall some basic notions of triangular norms and fuzzy equivalences[1,2]. A left continuous triangular norm (t-norm for short) is a binary operation & on the interval [0,1] such that ([0,1], &) is a commutitative monoid with 1 being the unit, and for eachxin [0,1],x&(-):[0,1][0,1]hasarightadjointx→(-):[0,1][0,1]inthesensethatforally,zin [0,1]

x&y≤z?y≤x→z.

Aleftcontinuoust-norm&iscontinuousif&isacontinuousfunction.

Example 1 (Klement, Mesiar and Pap[1]) Some basic left continuous t-norms on [0,1] are listed here. The first three are continuous but the fourth not.

(1)The G?del t-norm &M:x&My=x∧y.Thecorrespondingresiduationandbiresiduationisgivenby

(2)Theproductt-norm&P:x&Py=x·y.Thecorrespondingresiduationandbiresiduationisgivenby

(3)TheLukasiewicat-norm&L:x&Ly=(x+y-1)∨0.Thecorrespondingresiduationandbiresiduationisgivenby

AfuzzyrelationEonXiscalledafuzzyequalityifitsatisfiesthat(1)E(x,y)=1 iffx=y, (2)E(x,y)=E(y,x),(3)E(x,y)&E(y,z)≤E(x,z) for allx,y,zinX.ThevalueofE(x,y) is often interpreted as the degree of the thatxequals toyin the setX.

Example 2 (1)Given a t-norm &, the operationx?yontheunitintervalgivesanaturalfuzzyequality

E(x,y)=x?y=(x→y)∧(y→x)

foreveryxandyin [0,1].

(2)For a setX,thefuzzyequalityEXon FRel(X)isgivenby

forallfuzzyrelationsSandR.

3 The degree of the symmetry of fuzzy relations

AfuzzyrelationRissymmetricifandonlyifthereissomesymmetricfuzzyrelationSsuchthatR=S.Replacethecrispequalitybythefuzzyequality,weobtainthefollowing:

Definition 1 Given a fuzzy relationRonasetX,thedegreeofthesymmetryofRisgivenby

Proposition 1 A fuzzy relationRonasetXissymmetricifandonlyifD(R)=1.

Proof By Definition 1, ifRissymmetric,oneobtainsthatD(R)=1 clearly. Conversely, ifD(R)=1, butRis not symmetric, then there existx,yinX, such thatR(x,y)≠R(y,x). LetR(x,y)

h(α)=(α?R(x,y))∧(α?R(y,x)),

First,itholdsthath(α)≤R(y,x)→R(x,y)<1if0≤α≤R(x,y)orR(y,x)≤α≤1.

Second,ifR(x,y)<α

Letε0=(1-c)/4, then there exist δ0>0, for anytin (R(y,x)-δ0,R(y,x)), it holds that

R(y,x)→t>t→R(x,y)

Now,wetakesomet0in (R(y,x)-δ0,R(y,x)), thenh(α)≤R(y,x)→t0<1.

Lemma 1 Let & be one of the t-norms in Example 1 The function

h(x)=(x?a)∧(x?b)

iscontinuousforalla,bin [0,1] witha

Proof To proveh(x) is continuous, we need calculate (x?a)∧(x?b)foreachofthefourt-norms.

So,ineachcase,wecanseethath(x) is continuous.

Theorem 1 Let & be one of the t-norms in Example 1 andRbe a fuzzy relation on a setX, then there exists a symmetric fuzzy relationSsuch thatEX(S,R) is maximal.

Proof IfR(x,y)=R(y,x), let S(x,y)=S(y,x)=R(x,y). IfR(x,y)≠R(y,x), by Lemma 1, the function

h(α)=(α?R(x,y))∧(α?R(y,x))

iscontinuous.Thus,thereissomeelement,sayS(x,y), such thath(S(x,y)) is maximal. Clearly, the fuzzy relationSgiven in this way is a symmetric fuzzy relation as desired.

Theorem 2 Let & be one of the t-norms in Example 1 andRbe a fuzzy relation on a setX, then there is some symmetric fuzzy relation S onXsuch thatD(R)=EX(S,R).

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2016-08-20

國家自然科學(xué)基金項目(11tp1297)資助

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模糊關(guān)系的對稱度

但業(yè)星

(四川大學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)學(xué)院,四川成都610064)

本文基于集合X上的模糊關(guān)系的模糊相等關(guān)系,討論了模糊關(guān)系的對稱度問題.

模糊關(guān)系,對稱度,對稱的模糊關(guān)系,模糊相等

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