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Zbl 0661.54011
Diamond, Phil; Kloeden, Peter
Characterization of compact subsets of fuzzy sets. (English)
[J] Fuzzy Sets Syst. 29, No.3, 341-348 (1989). ISSN 0165-0114

Many applications of fuzzy sets restrict attention to the convenient metric space (${\cal E}\sp n,D)$ of normal, fuzzy convex sets on the base space ${\bbfR}\sp n$, with D the supremum over the Hausdorff distances between corresponding level sets. We mention in particular the fuzzy random variables of {\it M. L. Puri} and {\it D. A. Ralescu} [Ann. Probab. 13, 1373-1379 (1985; Zbl 0583.60011)], the fuzzy differential equations of {\it O. Kaleva} [Fuzzy Sets Syst. 24, 301-317 (1987; Zbl 0646.34019)], the fuzzy dynamical systems of the second author [Fuzzy Sets Syst. 7, 275-296 (1982; Zbl 0509.54040)] and the chaotic iterations of fuzzy sets of Diamond and Kloeden. In these papers specific results are often obtained for compact subsets of ${\cal E}\sp n$, which raises the question of how to characterize such compact subsets. The purpose of this is to present a convenient characterization of compact subsets of the metric space (${\cal E}\sp n,D)$. Our main result is that a closed subset of ${\cal E}\sp n$ is compact if and only if the support sets are uniformly bounded in ${\bbfR}\sp n$ and the support functions of Puri and Ralescu are equileftcontinuous in the membership grade variable $\alpha$ uniformly on the unit sphere $S\sp{n-1}$ of ${\bbfR}\sp n$. To this end we note that the support functions provides a means of embedding all of the space ${\cal E}\sp n$ in a Banach space, which we exhibit explicitly, not just the subspace ${\cal E}\sp n\sb{Lip}$ of `Lipschitzian' fuzzy sets considered by Puri and Ralescu.

MSC 2000:: *54A40 Fuzzy topology

Citations: Zbl 0583.60011; Zbl 0646.34019; Zbl 0509.54040

Cited in: Zbl 0994.54006 Zbl 0986.54012 Zbl 0988.54010 Zbl 0830.54006

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