CATEGORICAL RELATIONS AMONG MATROIDS, FUZZY MATROIDS AND FUZZIFYING MATROIDS

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 School of Mathematics and Science, Shijiazhuang University of Technology, Shijiazhuang 050031, P.R. China

2 School of Science, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an 710048, P.R. China

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the categorical relations between
matroids, Goetschel-Voxman’s fuzzy matroids and Shi’s fuzzifying matroids.
It is shown that the category of fuzzifying matroids is isomorphic to that of
closed fuzzy matroids and the latter is concretely coreflective in the category
of fuzzy matroids. The category of matroids can be embedded in that of
fuzzifying matroids as a simultaneously concretely reflective and coreflective
subcategory.

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Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems
Volume 7, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
January and February 2010
Pages 81-89

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