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On modular inequalities of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets characterized by soft J-inclusions
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2014, Article number: 360 (2014)
Abstract
This study aims to explore modular inequalities of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets characterized by Jun’s soft J-inclusions. Using soft product operations of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets, we first investigate some basic properties of soft J-inclusions and soft L-inclusions. Then a new concept called upward directed interval-valued fuzzy soft sets is defined and some equivalent characterizations are presented. Furthermore, we consider modular laws in lattice theory and find that classical modular inequalities in lattice theory are not valid for interval-valued fuzzy soft sets. Finally, we present some interesting inequalities of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets by virtue of soft J-inclusions and related notions.
MSC:03E72.
1 Introduction
It is worth noting that uncertainty arise from various domains has different nature and cannot be captured within a single mathematical framework. In addition to probability theory and statistics, we currently have some advanced soft computing methods such as fuzzy sets [1], rough sets [2], and also soft sets [3]. Molodtsov’s soft set theory provides a relatively new mathematical approach to dealing with uncertainty from a parameterization point of view. In the past decades, a rapid development in this theory and various applications have been witnessed [4–24].
Some researchers endeavored to enrich soft sets by combining them with other soft computing models such as rough sets and fuzzy sets. Using soft sets as the granulation structures, Feng et al. [21] initiated soft approximation spaces and soft rough sets, which generalize Pawlak’s rough sets based on soft sets. On the other hand, Maji et al. [25] initiated the study on hybrid structures involving both fuzzy sets and soft sets. They introduced the notion of fuzzy soft sets, which can be seen as a fuzzy generalization of Molodtsov’s soft sets. Furthermore, Yang et al. [26] introduced interval-valued fuzzy soft sets which realize a common extension of both Molodtsov’s soft sets and interval-valued fuzzy sets. It should be noted that there are several different kinds of soft inclusions (also known as soft subsets) in the literature [22, 23, 27, 28]. Feng and Li [29] investigated different types of soft subsets and the related soft equal relations in a systematic way. They also considered some interesting algebraic properties of soft product operations for Molodtsov’s soft sets. Liu et al. [30] investigated these issues in the more general setting of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets. They revealed some non-classical algebraic properties of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets with respect to soft product operations, which are distinct from those of interval-valued fuzzy sets. As a continuation to this line of research, in the present paper we will focus on modular inequalities of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets characterized by Jun’s soft J-inclusions.
The remainder of this study is organized as follows. Section 2 introduces some fundamental concepts and useful results regarding interval-valued fuzzy soft sets. Section 3 investigates some basic properties of Jun’s soft J-inclusions and Liu’s soft L-inclusions. In Section 4, we define upward directed interval-valued fuzzy soft sets and concentrate on discussing algebraic properties of soft product operations concerning idempotency. Section 5 is devoted to the exploration of modular inequalities of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets. Finally, the last section summarizes the study and suggests possible future works.
2 Preliminaries
Let U be a universe and (or simply E) be the set of all parameters associated with objects in U, which is called a parameter space. We denote the power sets of U by . Then soft sets are defined as follows.
Definition 2.1 [3]
A pair is called a soft set over U, where and is a set-valued mapping, called the approximate function of the soft set .
By virtue of parametrization, a soft set could provide a series of approximate descriptions of a complicated object being perceived from various points of view. For any parameter , the subset is called an ϵ-approximate set, consisting of all ϵ-approximate elements [3].
Next, let us consider the set and the order relation given by
Then is a complete lattice. An interval-valued fuzzy set on a universe U is a mapping . The union, intersection and complement of interval-valued fuzzy sets can be obtained by canonically extending fuzzy set-theoretic operations to intervals. The set of all interval-valued fuzzy sets on U is denoted by .
Definition 2.2 [27]
Let be a soft universe and . A pair is called an interval-valued fuzzy soft set over U, where is a mapping given by .
The mapping is also called the approximate function of the interval-valued fuzzy soft set . The following two operations ∧ and ∨ will be referred to as soft product operations of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets in general.
Definition 2.3 [26]
Let and be two interval-valued fuzzy soft sets over U. The ∧-product (also called AND operation) of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets and is an interval-valued fuzzy soft set defined by , where for all .
Definition 2.4 [26]
Let and be two interval-valued fuzzy soft sets over U. The ∨-product (also called OR operation) of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets and is an interval-valued fuzzy soft set defined by , where for all .
We denote by the collection of all interval-valued fuzzy soft sets over U with parameter space E. For more details on interval-valued fuzzy soft sets and related terminologies used below, we refer to the papers [26, 27, 31]. For convenience, we abbreviate the term ‘interval-valued fuzzy’ as IVF in what follows.
There are some different types of soft inclusion relations in the literature. Here we mainly introduce two of them, namely Jun’s inclusion in [27] and Liu’s inclusion in [28]. The readers who are interested in soft subsets and related topics are referred to papers [27–29].
Definition 2.5 [27]
Let and be two IVF soft sets over U. Then is called a IVF soft J-subset of , denoted , if for every there exists such that . Two IVF soft sets and are said to be IVF soft J-equal, denoted , if and .
Motivated by Jun and Yang’s IVF soft J-subsets, Liu et al. [28] further introduced the following kinds of IVF soft subsets.
Definition 2.6 [28]
Let and be two IVF soft sets over U. Then is called a IVF soft L-subset of , denoted , if for every there exists such that . Two IVF soft sets and are said to be IVF soft L-equal, denoted , if and .
Note that and are binary relations on , which are called IVF soft J-inclusion and IVF soft L-inclusion, respectively. The following result is easily verified in virtue of the above definitions.
Proposition 2.7 If , then .
Two IVF soft sets and are said to be identical, denoted by , if they have the same parameter sets as well as approximate functions. That is, and for all . As an immediate consequence of Proposition 2.7 and the definition of IVF soft identical relations, we get a result as follows.
Corollary 2.8 Suppose that and are two IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
It is worth noting that all the reverse implications in Proposition 2.7 and Corollary 2.8 do not hold in general. For more details, one can refer to the discussion regarding Molodtsov’s soft sets in [28, 29].
The above-mentioned concepts are useful in characterizing some fundamental algebraic properties of soft product operations ∧ and ∨. To show this, we consider the following result.
Theorem 2.9 [30] (Generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets)
Let and be two IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
.
In view of results, we can see that the commutative laws do not hold in the conventional sense, which are characterized by IVF soft identical relation. Another important fact concerns algebraic properties regarding distributivity of soft product operations.
Theorem 2.10 [30]
Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
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(1)
;
-
(2)
.
In a similar fashion, Liu et al. [28] proposed the following distributive inequalities of IVF soft sets.
Theorem 2.11 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
-
(1)
;
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(2)
.
Remark 2.12 It is interesting to point out that the soft product operations of IVF soft sets possess some non-classical algebraic properties, as shown by the above results. Comparing with interval-valued fuzzy sets, we can find that forms a distributive lattice, while only distributive inequalities (described by the IVF soft L-inclusion ) hold for IVF soft sets. Thus neither the left nor the right distributive laws hold even in the weakest sense of IVF soft J-equal relations.
3 Some basic properties of IVF soft inclusions
Here we propose several basic inequalities of IVF soft sets characterized by IVF soft inclusions, which are useful in subsequent discussions.
Proposition 3.1 [30]
Let and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Proposition 3.2 [30]
The IVF soft L-inclusion is a preorder on .
Proposition 3.3 [30]
The IVF soft J-inclusion is a preorder on .
By generic properties of preorders, we can deduce the following two results.
Corollary 3.4 The IVF soft L-equal relation is an equivalence relation on .
Corollary 3.5 The IVF soft J-equal relation is an equivalence relation on .
Proposition 3.6 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Proof To prove the first assertion, let and . By hypothesis, we have and so for every there exists such that . For any , we deduce that
for some . Hence .
Next, we show the second assertion. Let . By the generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets in Theorem 2.9, we have
Note also that we have verified that in the first assertion. It follows that
by transitivity of the preorder on .
The proofs of the other two assertions can be obtained in a similar fashion and thus omitted. □
Moreover, one can easily verify a result as follows.
Proposition 3.7 Let , be IVF soft sets over U and . If and , then we have
Considering ∧-product of IVF soft sets, one can verify the following results which are analogous to Proposition 3.6 and 3.7, respectively.
Proposition 3.8 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Proposition 3.9 Let , be IVF soft sets over U and . If and , then we have
Regarding Jun’s inclusion of IVF soft sets, we obtained the following similar results in [30].
Proposition 3.10 Let , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
;
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(5)
;
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(6)
;
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(7)
;
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(8)
.
Proposition 3.11 Let , be IVF soft sets over U and . If and , then we have
and
4 Upward directed IVF soft sets and idempotency
Now, we investigate algebraic properties of soft product operations of IVF soft sets by considering idempotency. First, we recall some important results proposed by Liu et al. [30].
Proposition 4.1 [30]
Let . Then .
Proposition 4.2 [30]
Let . Then .
Theorem 4.3 [30]
Let . Then .
The last result indicates that the ∧-product operation of IVF soft sets is idempotent with respect to IVF soft J-equal relations, and is referred to as the weak idempotent law of IVF soft sets. Nevertheless, the parallel result regarding ∨-product operations of IVF soft sets does not hold.
We know that ∩ and ∪ are both idempotent since is a lattice in the theory of interval-valued fuzzy sets. The two operations ∩ and ∪ are dual to each other, which always satisfy similar or parallel algebraic properties. According to Definition 2.3 and Definition 2.4, the operations ∧ and ∨ of IVF soft sets are defined in terms of the intersection ∩ and union ∪ of interval-valued fuzzy sets, respectively. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see that the operations ∧ and ∨ of IVF soft sets do not always have similar algebraic properties. In fact, as shown by some illustrative examples in [30] we have
but
Note also that
which shows that the ∧-product operation of IVF soft sets is idempotent with respect to the IVF soft J-equal relation , but not in the stronger sense of . Thus considering the IVF soft L-inclusion , we only have some idempotent inequalities as shown in Proposition 4.1 and Proposition 4.2. In view of these results, we conclude that IVF soft sets possess some non-classical algebraic properties, compared with interval-valued fuzzy sets. The interested readers could refer to [28, 30] for more details.
Recall that a nonempty set A together with a preorder ≤ is called an upward directed set if every pair of elements in A has an upper bound. That is, for every , there exists such that and .
Definition 4.4 Let be an IVF soft set over U with . Then is said to be upward directed if for every , there exists such that
Example 4.5 Let be the universe and the parameter space . Assume that the parameter set and is an IVF soft set over U with tabular representation given by Table 1. By definition, one can verify that is an upward directed IVF soft set over U.
The following statements justify the term upward directed IVF soft sets and illustrate some intuitive ideas for introducing such a notion in the theory of IVF soft sets.
Proposition 4.6 Let and . Then is an upward directed IVF soft set over U if and only if is an upward directed set.
Proof First, suppose that is an upward directed IVF soft set over U. Then by the definition of upward directed IVF soft sets, we have and so is a nonempty subset of . Moreover, for every , there exists such that . It follows that and . This shows that is an upward directed set with respect to the partial order ⊆.
Conversely, let be an upward directed set. Then since is nonempty. For every , by the definition of upward directed sets, the pair of elements and has an upper bound in . Hence there exists such that and . It follows that . Therefore, is an upward directed IVF soft set over U. □
Proposition 4.7 Let and . Then is an upward directed IVF soft set over U if and only if .
Proof Let us denote by . First, assume that is an upward directed IVF soft set over U. For every , there exists such that
since is upward directed. This shows that
But by Proposition 4.3, we also have , and so
Hence we deduce that .
Conversely, let . Then in particular, we have
Now for every , there exists such that
Hence by definition, is an upward directed IVF soft set over U. □
Corollary 4.8 Let and . Then the following are equivalent:
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(1)
is an upward directed IVF soft set over U.
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(2)
is an upward directed set with respect to ⊆.
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(3)
.
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(4)
.
Proof According to Proposition 4.6 and Proposition 4.7, we have (1) ⇔ (2) and (1) ⇔ (3), respectively. Thus we only need to show that (1) ⇔ (4). In fact, let us denote by . Then by Definition 4.4, is an upward directed IVF soft set over U if and only if for every , there exists such that
Clearly, this is equivalent to , completing our proof. □
5 Modular inequalities of IVF soft sets
Let be a lattice and . Then one can verify that
In particular, for every interval-valued fuzzy sets μ, ν, λ, one can deduce that
Actually, the modular law
holds for all since forms a distributive lattice. Considering IVF soft sets and soft product operations, we encounter a situation in contrast to the above. First, we have following types of modular inequalities of IVF soft sets.
Theorem 5.1 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
Proof By the distributive inequalities in Theorem 2.10, we have
and it implies that
Note also that
by Proposition 3.1. Thus from Proposition 3.10, it follows that
Since is transitive on , we deduce that
which completes the proof. □
It is interesting to see that the reverse soft J-inclusion does not hold in general. Actually we will illustrate this fact with an example in the following. Using the generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets in Theorem 2.9, we have the following consequences of Theorem 5.1.
Corollary 5.2 Let , and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
.
Proof We only prove the first soft J-inclusion; the proofs of other soft J-inclusions can be obtained using similar techniques. Note first that
by the generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets. It follows that
Thus we deduce that
according to Proposition 3.10. But by Theorem 5.1, we also have
Hence we conclude that
since is transitive on . □
In a similar fashion, one can verify the following statements.
Corollary 5.3 Let , and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Corollary 5.4 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Corollary 5.5 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. Then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Theorem 5.6 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
Proof By the distributive inequalities in Theorem 2.11, we have
and so
Since by the hypothesis, we deduce that
by Proposition 3.10. Then it follows that
Consequently, we can obtain
by transitivity of the preorder on . □
Example 5.7 Suppose that is the universe and is the parameter space. For the parameter sets , , and , let , , and be three IVF soft sets over U, where
It is clear that since and . Let us write for where for all . Then and by calculation, one obtains
and
Then let us write as , where
for all . It is easy to see that
Proceeding with detailed calculations, one can obtain the IVF soft set with its tabular representation shown in Table 2.
Next, we write for where for all . Let us denote by , where for all . It is easy to see that and . By calculation, we get
and
Also we can obtain the IVF soft set with its tabular representation given by Table 3.
Moreover, let , where for all . It is not difficult to check that
Proceeding with detailed calculations, we get the IVF soft set ℜ with its tabular representation shown in Table 4.
Also, let . Then we have
and tabular representation of the IVF soft set is shown in Table 5.
Now, in view of Table 2 and Table 4 one can verify that . That is,
Nevertheless, it is easily seen from Table 2 and Table 5 that since , , , and . That is,
does not hold in general.
Remark 5.8 In view of Theorem 5.1, Theorem 5.6 and Example 5.7, we can find that under soft product operations, IVF soft sets possess some interesting algebraic properties which differ from those of interval-valued fuzzy sets. In particular, one can see that usual modular inequalities in lattice theory are not valid for IVF soft sets.
Using the generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets in Theorem 2.9, we have the following consequences of Theorem 5.6.
Corollary 5.9 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
.
Proof We only verify the first assertion; the proofs of the others can be obtained in a similar fashion. First, by the generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets, we also know that
and so
Now, from Proposition 3.6, it follows that
But according to Theorem 5.6,
Hence we conclude that
by transitivity of the preorder on . □
Using similar techniques as above, we obtain the following results.
Corollary 5.10 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Corollary 5.11 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Corollary 5.12 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If , then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Theorem 5.13 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If and is upward directed, then we have
Proof First, according to Theorem 5.6,
But by the hypothesis, is a upward directed IVF soft set, and so
by Proposition 4.7. It follows that
and so by Proposition 3.10, we deduce that
Thus by transitivity of , we have
On the other hand, we also have
according to Theorem 5.1. Therefore, we finally conclude that
completing the proof. □
Using the generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets in Theorem 2.9, we have the following consequences of Theorem 5.13.
Corollary 5.14 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If and is upward directed, then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
.
Proof By the generalized commutative laws of IVF soft sets, we have
and so
That is,
and
Then according to Proposition 3.10, we deduce that
and
Hence it follows that
Now, according to Theorem 5.13,
Therefore, we conclude that
by transitivity of IVF soft J-equal relations. The proofs of other soft J-equalities can be obtained using similar techniques. □
The proofs of the following results are similar to that of Corollary 5.14 and thus omitted.
Corollary 5.15 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If and is upward directed, then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Corollary 5.16 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If and is upward directed, then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
Corollary 5.17 Let , , and be IVF soft sets over U. If and is upward directed, then we have
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(1)
;
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(2)
;
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(3)
;
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(4)
.
6 Conclusions
This paper focused on exploring modular inequalities of IVF soft sets characterized by Jun’s soft J-inclusions. It has been shown that Jun’s soft J-inclusions and Liu’s soft L-inclusions are preorders; hence the soft equal relations and derived from them are equivalence relations on the collection of all IVF soft sets over U with parameter space E. These soft inclusions proved to be useful in characterizing some fundamental algebraic properties of soft product operations. Moreover, upward directed IVF soft sets were introduced and some equivalent characterizations were presented. We finally considered modular laws in lattice theory and proposed modular inequalities of IVF soft sets using soft J-inclusions and some related notions mentioned above. As future work, we will further investigate other types of interesting inequalities of IVF soft sets.
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Liu, X., Feng, F., Yager, R.R. et al. On modular inequalities of interval-valued fuzzy soft sets characterized by soft J-inclusions. J Inequal Appl 2014, 360 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2014-360
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