1. Introduction
The number of sets is inherently equipped with two binary operations: addition and multiplication. Instances that rapidly come to mind are the set of integers, set of integers under modulo
n, set of polynomials, set of matrices, and set of real numbers. We simply used addition and ignored multiplication when using these sets as a group. In many examples, however, one wishes to think about both addition and multiplication. The concept of a ring is the abstract notion of this thought. Dedekind [
1,
2] invented the informal notion of a ring in the early 19th century. Fraenkel presented the first axiomatic definition of a ring in 1914. This theory has been a great origin of innovation for numerous mathematicians in several scientific fields, such as cryptography, theoretical physics, algebraic geometry, and computer science. Rings are very important algebraic structures for studying the symmetries of a geometric object. In ring theory, the most important functions are those that preserve the ring operation and are called homomorphism. An easy way of seeing a potential connection between homomorphism and real life is by showing a link from ring theory to real life.
The central idea of basic set theory insists that an element may be part of a set or may not make it complex for humanistic ability. Whereas, crisp set clearly points out whether it comprises a component or not. The fuzzy sets leniently derive elements in the set. Each ingredient has a level of placement in a set. This placement can have grading from zero to one. Fuzzy logic remained in use in multiple applications, particularly in clothes washing systems, vacuum cleaners, and ventilation systems. Zadeh [
3] published his maiden well-acknowledged research paper about fuzzy sets in 1965. The theory of fuzzy sets since then has had interesting application areas in both theoretical and practical studies from life science to physical sciences, computer science to health science and engineering to humanities. This reason-based thinking helps to master the arts and skills in order to attain certain jobs. In addition, this ideology bridges some medium between the academic outlines and a number of acquired skills out of these courses.
Traffic lawlessness is also one of the most human-stricken phenomenon having rigorous effects to overcome. The qualities and efficiency of the transport systems, infrastructure, vehicles and costs, etc., are highly indebted to the measuring evaluation of their core factors. In transport systems, most of the planning as well as decisions succumb to the uncertain, improper and biased reality. Fuzzy theory has worked in the automotive system for traffic control and speed control (see [
4]). There are some strict conditions that cannot be measured in the sense of crisp theory. The fuzzy theory and its groups deliver a quite convenient approach to tackle transportation difficulties in real-life situations. This doctrine is utilized to copy the project that powerfully controls and deals with the interchange of double-way lanes and roads. In real-life scenarios, we sometimes face such situations wherein we are unable to differentiate between true or false statements. The fuzzy logic develops a key tool for reason in such scenarios. Thus, we can handle the certainty and uncertainty of the situations. It is also utilized in the aerospace area of satellites and spacecrafts for altitude control (see [
5,
6,
7,
8]).
This theory plays a significant role in developing personal evaluation in large companies and decision-making support systems [
9,
10]. It has many applications in the chemical industry for drying, chemical distillation process [
11], and controlling the pH [
12]. The fuzzy sets play an important role in analyzing symmetries of graphene molecules [
13] and arrangement of symmetries in composite geometric figures [
14]. The extensive application of fuzzy sets has been investigated in numerous fields, such as decision making [
15], computer sciences [
16], medical fields [
17], artificial intelligence [
18], graph theory [
19], metric space [
20] and group theory [
21]. The pioneer of the fuzzy ring theory, Liu [
22], published the first well-acknowledged article on his new theory that is a way of dealing with ambiguity by representing every element in the ring and ideal combining with a membership degree in 1983. He also explored the operation of a fuzzy ideal in [
23]. Gupta and Qi [
24] investigated the
t-norm and
t-conorm in fuzzy set theory. The fuzzy direct sums of fuzzy rings were presented in [
25]. Zaid [
26] defined a link between the quotient ring and fuzzy set and established fuzzy quotient subrings. Some new features of the intrinsic product of fuzzy subrings were investigated in [
27]. In 2009, Fotea and Davvaz [
28] proposed the new idea of fuzzy hyper-rings. The idea of fuzzy hyperideal with fuzzy hypercongruences was investigated in [
29]. Ameri et al. [
30] introduced the concept of Engel fuzzy subgroups and investigated the fundamental results of left and right fuzzy Engel elements analog to classical left and right Engel elements. Motameni et al. [
31] studied a special kind of fuzzy hyperideals and extended this concept to fuzzy hyper-ring homomorphism for maximal fuzzy hyperideal and prim fuzzy hyperideal. The 4-Engel fuzzy subgroup is discussed in [
32]. Moreover, Mohamadzahed et al. [
33] invented the definition of the nilpotent fuzzy subgroup and discussed many algebraic properties of nilpotent fuzzy subgroups. Emniyet and Sahin [
34] extended the definition of the normed ring to fuzzy normed subring by incorporating the degree of membership functions and discussed their fundamental properties. Trevijano et al. [
35] established a new concept of an annihilator for a fuzzy subgroup of the Abelian group. They also discussed the behavior of the annihilator with respect to intersection and union. The different approximation about fuzzy ring homomorphism was studied in [
36]. Mehmood et al. [
37] presented a new algebraic structure of
M-hazy ring and studied the various algebraic characteristics of this newly defined ring. Mehmood et al. [
38] developed a new algebraic structure of
M-hazy ring homomorphism.
The demand for privacy and security regarding digital material has risen to significant levels during the past decade. This coincides with the growth rate in communicative programs and devices. In the last few years, encryption schemes have been investigated massively. Thence, they have become of great importance in series of cryptographic models, such as voting systems. Recently, searchable encryption has had considerable effective attention in the area of cloud computing. Liu et al. [
39] extended an effective fuzzy semantic searchable encryption scheme that handles the multi-keyword search under encrypted data in cloud computing. Generally, image encryption and steganography techniques have been receiving a lot of interest recently due to their high application in multimedia communication systems. A hybrid effective image encryption and steganography scheme was purposed in [
40]. Addis et al. [
41] studied fuzzy homomorphism of fuzzy subrings. Gulzar et al. [
42] initiated a notion of
Q-complex fuzzy subrings and proved that every
Q-complex fuzzy subring generates two
Q-fuzzy subrings. Moreover, the concept of the complex fuzzy subfield was introduced in [
43]. The extensive applications of fuzzy sets and multi soft sets may be viewed in [
44,
45,
46,
47,
48].
The main theme of this article is to present the study of -fuzzy sets and -fuzzy subrings as a powerful extension of the existing classical theories, such as fuzzy sets and fuzzy subrings. The aspiration to form a sketch of this unique technique of an -fuzzy set in the study of fuzzy ring theory served as the main motivation to propose and develop the theory of -fuzzy subrings. Another keynote of this paper is to define the -fuzzy homomorphism and prove the numerous fundamental theorems of -fuzzy homomorphism analog to classical homomorphism. Moreover, we extend this idea to prove -fuzzy isomorphism between these specific fuzzy subrings. Complete algebraic properties of many ring theory problems can be explored by using this newly defined -fuzzy algebraic structure.
To do so, the rest of the manuscript is arranged as follows. The fuzzy sets, fuzzy subrings and related results are defined in
Section 2 along with many important properties of fuzzy subrings. In
Section 3, we present the new concept of
-fuzzy subrings and discuss essential interpretations related to
-fuzzy subrings. In addition, we define
-fuzzy cosets, the
-fuzzy ideal and construct a quotient ring with respect to the
-fuzzy ideal. Further, we give an idea of support of an
-fuzzy set and show that the support of the
-fuzzy ideal of a ring forms the natural ideal of ring. In
Section 4, we describe the
-fuzzy homomorphism of
-fuzzy subrings under a natural ring homomorphism. We establish an
-fuzzy homomorphism between an
-fuzzy subring of the quotient ring and the
-fuzzy subring of this ring. We develop a significant relationship between two
-fuzzy subrings of quotient rings under given
-fuzzy surjective homomorphism and prove some more fundamental theorems of
-fuzzy homomorphism for these specific fuzzy subrings. Finally, we discuss three fundamental theorems of
-fuzzy isomorphism.
3. Fundamental Algebraic Properties of -Fuzzy Subrings
In this section, by keeping in view the advantage of fuzzy sets and fuzzy subrings, we introduce the concept of an -fuzzy set, -fuzzy subring, -fuzzy ideal and their corresponding desirable set-theoretic operations. We also define the concept of an -fuzzy coset and develop a quotient ring with respect to this particular fuzzy ideal. Additionally, we study the notion of a support set of an -fuzzy set and prove various important characteristics of this phenomenon.
Definition 11. Let A be a fuzzy subset of nonempty set P and . The fuzzy set of P is called the ω-fuzzy subset of P (w.r.t fuzzy set ) and is described by
Remark 1. Obviously and .
Example 1. Consider a universe of discourse . Define the fuzzy set A of universe Z as follows:From Definition 11, we haveWe get an ω-fuzzy subset of Z with respect to A for the value of , as follows:Hence, the -fuzzy set of Z with respect to A is given by Proposition 1. Let and be two arbitrary fuzzy subsets of P. Then .
Proof. Now,
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Remark 2. Let and be two arbitrary fuzzy subsets of . Then Definition 12. Let A and B be fuzzy subsets of universal set P. Then the ω-fuzzy sum of and is denoted by and is described: Definition 13. Let R be a ring and be a fuzzy subset of ring R. Then the ω-fuzzy subset is called the ω-fuzzy subring of R if the following axiom holds
- 1.
- 2.
Theorem 1. Intersection of two ω-fuzzy subrings of a ring R is an ω-fuzzy subring of R.
Proof. Suppose
and
B are two
-fuzzy sets of a ring
. Let
be any elements, then
Thus,
.
Moreover,
, [From Proposition 1]
Hence,
Consequently, is an -fuzzy subring of □
Corollary 1. Intersection of any family of ω-fuzzy subrings of a ring R is also an ω-fuzzy subring of R.
Remark 3. Union of two ω-fuzzy subrings of a ring R may not be an ω-fuzzy subring of R.
The following example shows that the converse of Theorem 1 is not true, in general.
Example 2. Let be a ring under addition. Define the two ω-fuzzy subsets A and B of Z as followsandThe union of and look like as for Thus,Take , and Then, and but and = Clearly,
Hence, this proves the claim.
Definition 14. Let be an ω-fuzzy subset of a ring R. Then, is an ω-fuzzy left ideal of R if
- 1.
- 2.
Definition 15. Let be an ω-fuzzy subset of a ring R. Then is a ω-fuzzy right ideal of R if
- 1.
- 2.
Definition 16. Let be an ω-fuzzy subset of a ring R. Then is an ω-fuzzy ideal of R if
- 1.
- 2.
Definition 17. Let be an ω-fuzzy subring of a ring R and . For any , the ω-fuzzy coset of in R is represented by and is defined as Lemma 1. If is a ω-fuzzy subring of a ring R, then , for all where 0 is the neutral element of
Proof. Consider
Hence,
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Theorem 2. Let be an ω-fuzzy ideal of ring R. Then, the set is an ideal of ring R.
Proof. Obviously,
because
. Let
be any elements. Consider
Implies that
. Further, let
and
. Consider
Implies that
. However,
. Therefore,
. Similarly,
. Implies that
. This implies that
is an ideal of ring
R. □
Theorem 3. Let be a ω-fuzzy ideal of ring R, . Then if and only if
Proof. For any
, we have
. Consider,
Therefore,
. Conversely, let
Implies that
Interchange the role of
m and
n we get
Therefore,
, for all
We have yet to explain why -fuzzy ideals are of special significance. The reason is quite simple, when the -fuzzy set of R is -fuzzy ideal, then the set of all -fuzzy left (or right) cosets of in R is itself a ring. This is called a quotient ring with respect to the -fuzzy ideal. □
Definition 18. Let A be an ω-fuzzy ideal of a ring Then the set of all ω-fuzzy cosets of and the binary operation under addition and multiplication on set are defined by The ring is called the factor ring of R with respect to ω-fuzzy ideal .
Theorem 4. The set of all ω-fuzzy cosets of forms a ring under the well-defined binary operation addition and multiplication.
Proof. Let
be any element of
Moreover,
However, we have,
.
Implies that
.
Similarly, we can prove that
Consequently,
. Therefore, the operation under addition and multiplication are well defined. Now we prove that the following axioms of a ring for any
Consequently, is a ring. □
Definition 19. Let be an ω-fuzzy set of P. The support set of is defined as: Remark 4. Let be an ω-fuzzy subring of R. Then, is a subring of R.
In the next theorem, we prove that the support set of an w-fuzzy ideal is an ideal of the ring.
Theorem 5. Let be an ω-fuzzy ideal of R, then is an ideal of R.
Proof. Assume that . Consider This implies that .
Furthermore, suppose that and . Consider > 0. Similarly, . This implies that . This implies that is an ideal of R. □
Our next theorem gives the significant importance of the support of intersection of any two -fuzzy subrings of a ring R.
Theorem 6. If and are ω-fuzzy subrings of R, then .
Proof. For any arbitrary element, This implies that , which implies that
This implies that
, implying Consequently, Moreover, , which implies that > 0. Further implying that Implying that Therefore, Consequently, This concludes the proof. □
Remark 5. If and are ω-fuzzy subrings of R, then .
Definition 20. Let and be the ω-fuzzy set and ω-fuzzy subring of R, respectively, with . Then, A is called an ω-fuzzy ideal of B if the following axiom holds
- 1.
- 2.
The most striking fact between the -fuzzy subring and -fuzzy ideal of a ring R is illustrated in the following theorem.
Remark 6. Let and be the ω-fuzzy subrings of a ring R, and is an ω-fuzzy ideal of . Then, is an ideal of ring .
Theorem 7. Let be an ω-fuzzy ideal and be a ω-fuzzy subring of R, then is a ω-fuzzy ideal of
Proof. Consider elements . We have
Thus, concluding the proof. □
Remark 7. Let , and be ω-fuzzy subrings of R such that and are ω-fuzzy ideals of . Then, is an ω-fuzzy ideal of .
Theorem 8. Let M be an ideal of a ring R. If is an ω-fuzzy ideal of R, then the ω-fuzzy set of is also ω-fuzzy ideal of .
Proof. First we shall show that is well defined. Let Then for some
Consider
Therefore,
is well defined. Now we prove that
is an
-fuzzy ideal of
.
Consider,
Hence,
is an
-fuzzy ideal of
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Remark 8. Let M be an ideal of a ring R. If is an ω-fuzzy subring of R, then the ω-fuzzy set of is also an ω-fuzzy subring of .
4. Fundamental Theorem of -Fuzzy Isomorphism of -Fuzzy
Subrings
In this section, we introduce the concept of -fuzzy homomorphism and -fuzzy isomorphism. We investigate the concept of the -fuzzy homomorphism relation between any two -fuzzy subrings. Moreover, we explain that the roles of -fuzzy homomorphism and -fuzzy isomorphism are completely distinct. We investigate the concept of -fuzzy homomorphism of two -fuzzy subrings.
Definition 21. Let be a ring homomorphism from R to . Let and be ω-fuzzy subrings of rings R and , respectively. The image and inverse image of and , respectively, are described as follows:andThe homomorphism h is said to be an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto if and is denoted by . An isomorphism h from ω-fuzzy subring to ω-fuzzy subring is said to be an ω-fuzzy isomorphism from to if . In this situation, is ω-fuzzy isomorphic to and is represented by . This manifestation becomes a weak ω-fuzzy isomorphism from to if . In the next theorem, we illustrate the fuzzy homomorphism relation between an -fuzzy subring of a ring and any of its factor rings.
Theorem 9. Let be a ring homomorphism from R onto , where M is a fuzzy ideal of ring R. Let and be ω-fuzzy subrings of R and , respectively. Then π is an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto .
Proof. Since is a homomorphism from R onto described by the rule , for any , we have Where .
Consider
This implies that
Therefore, Hence, the theorem proved.
The following example illustrates the algebraic fact of Theorem 9. □
Example 3. Consider the factor ring , where is a ring of an integer, and is an ideal of ring Z. Then, the fuzzy subring of Z is defined as The ω-fuzzy subring of Z for the value of is given asDefine the fuzzy subring of as follows:For , the ω-fuzzy subring of is defined as:The natural homomorphism π from Z to is described as: , for all , which implies that , and thus, . In addition, }, which implies that . Thus, The important relationship of an -fuzzy homomorphism from an -fuzzy subring of a quotient ring to an -fuzzy subring of the ring given below is often called the Fundamental Theorem of -Fuzzy Homomorphism.
Theorem 10. Let and be ω-fuzzy subrings of rings R and , respectively, and f be an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto . Then a mapping is an ω-fuzzy subring from onto , where is an ω-fuzzy subring of .
Proof. Since
, in addition, we have
as a homomorphism from
onto
defined by the rule
The image of
under the function
may be described as:
Now,
This implies that
. This implies that
Thus, . This establishes the proof. □
Example 4. Consider the rings and . Consider the ring of integers and also is a ring of integers modulo 4. Define a homomorphism from Z onto as follows: (mod 4) the fuzzy subring of Z is given as:For , the ω-fuzzy subring of ring Z is defined as:The fuzzy set B of is given as:The ω-fuzzy subring of for the value of is as follows:Consider,Similarly, and . Thus, . The quotient ring of is given by where is a fuzzy ideal of the ring of integers Z. Define fuzzy set of as follows:The ω-fuzzy subring of for the value of is defined as:Define a mapping ϕ from onto as follows (mod. 4), for all . From the above information, we haveSimilarly, and Therefore, .
Remark 9. Let and be ω-fuzzy subrings of rings R and , respectively, and h be an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto with as a kernel of R. Then, the mapping φ from to is an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto , where is a ω-fuzzy subring of .
The next theorem explains one of the most powerful formations of -fuzzy homomorphism of an -fuzzy subring of a ring and -fuzzy subring of a factor ring.
Theorem 11. Let and be ω-fuzzy subrings of rings R and , respectively. Let R be an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto and the natural homomorphism π from onto be an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto , where is an ω-fuzzy subring of . Then is an ω-fuzzy subring from onto , where M is a fuzzy normal subring of R with .
Proof. Consider that is a natural homomorphism from R onto .
For any
, we have
Consider
Hence, the proof is complete. □
Theorem 12. Let and be ω-fuzzy subrings of R and , respectively, and h be an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto . Let be a natural homomorphism and . Then a mapping is an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto where and are ω-fuzzy subrings of and , respectively.
Proof. From Theorem 11, we define a mapping
such that
is a composition of mapping
R and
such that
Moreover,
From the theorem, we have an
-fuzzy subring
of
, and this is defined as
This proves that
is an
-fuzzy homomorphism with kernel
. Define a mapping
from
to
as follows,
, and
Consider,
.
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Lemma 2. Let and be any two ω-fuzzy subrings of rings R and , respectively, and f be an epimorphism from R to such that , where and are ω-fuzzy subrings of R and , respectively. Then .
Proof. Given that , let , for some . Consider, Therefore, . Thus, .
Moreover, from Definition 21 and the epimorphism f, develop . Thus, the proof is established. □
Theorem 13. (First, the ω-Fuzzy Isomorphism Theorem): Let and be ω-fuzzy subrings of rings R and , respectively, and h be an ω-fuzzy homomorphism from onto , where ker is kernel of a fuzzy homomorphism. Then , where is a ω-fuzzy ideal of
Proof. Given that
h is an
-fuzzy homomorphism from
to
. Consider the
-fuzzy subring
of
R as follows:
Obviously,
. Moreover, for any
consider
If
, then
. Hence,
. This shows that
is an
-fuzzy ideal of
. Since
in view of Lemma 2, h
. Let
then
be a homomorphism with kernal
. Then, there exists an isomorphism
from
to
that can be described as
Consider
This implies that
This means that
.
As result, . □
Theorem 14. (Second ω-Fuzzy Isomorphism Theorem): Let be an ω-fuzzy ideal and be an ω-fuzzy subring of a ring R such that . Then,
Proof. From Remark 6 and the fact
, one can obtain that quotient rings
and
Therefore, by applying the second fundamental theorem of classical ring isomorphism on these specific quotient rings, we get:
The abovestated result leads us to obtain the fact that there is a ring isomorphism
h from
to
, which can be described as
Consider
This implies that
Thus,
As a result, we get a weak
-fuzzy isomorphism between
and
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Theorem 15. (Third ω-Fuzzy Isomorphism Theorem): Let , and be ω-fuzzy subrings of R such that and are ω-fuzzy subrings of with . Then
Proof. From Remark 6 and the fact that
and
are
-fuzzy ideals of
with
, one can obtain the quotient rings
and
Therefore, by applying the third fundamental theorem of the classical ring isomorphism on these specific quotient rings, we get:
The above stated results lead us to obtain that there is a ring isomorphism
h from
to
, which may be described as:
Consider
This implies that
Thus,
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