1. Introduction
The idea of neutrosophy was initiated and developed by Smarandache [
1] in 1999. In recent decades the theory was used at various junctions of mathematics. More precisely, the theory made an outstanding advancement in the field of topological spaces. Salama et al. and Hur et al. [
2,
3,
4,
5,
6] are some who posted their works of neutrosophic topological spaces, following the approach of Chang [
7] in the context of fuzzy topological spaces. One can easily observe that the fuzzy topology introduced by Chang is a crisp collection of fuzzy subsets.
Šostak [
8] observed that Chang’s approach is crisp in nature and so he redefined the notion of fuzzy topology, often referred as smooth fuzzy topology, as a function from the collection of all fuzzy subsets of
X to
; Fang Jin-ming et al. and Vembu et al. [
9,
10] are some who discussed the concept of basis as a function from a suitable collection of fuzzy subsets of
X to
. Yan, Wang, Nanjing, Liang and Yan [
11,
12] developed a parallel theory in the context of intuitionistic
I-fuzzy topological spaces.
The notion of a single-valued neutrosophic set was proposed by Wang [
13] in 2010. In 2016, Gayyar [
14] introduced the concept of smooth neutrosophic topological spaces. The notion of the basis for an ordinary single-valued neutrosophic topology was defined and discussed by Kim [
15]. Salama, Alblowi, Shumrani, Muhammed Gulisten, Smarandache, Saber, Alsharari, Zhang and Sunderraman [
4,
16,
17] are some others who posted their work in the context of single-valued neutrosophic topological spaces.
In
Section 2, we give all basic definitions and results, which are important prerequisites that are needed to go through the theory developed in this paper. In
Section 3, we define the notion of the basis and subbasis for a smooth neutrosophic topology; further, we develop the theory using the concept of neutrosophic quasi-coincident neighborhood systems. In addition, we prove some results which are similar to the classical ones, to establish the consistency of theory developed. Finally, in
Section 4, we define and discuss the product of smooth neutrosophic spaces using our definition of basis.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we give all basic definitions and results which we need to go through our work. As usual
and
denote the sets of all real numbers and rationals respectively. First we give the definition of a neutrosophic set [
1,
4].
Definition 1. Let X be a non-empty set. A neutrosophic set in X is an object having the formwhereandrepresent the degree of membership (namely, ), the degree of indeterminacy (namely, ) and the degree of non-membership (namely, ), for all to the set to the set . Here
and
where
is infinitesimal number and
; further, 1 and
denote standard part and non-standard part of
; 0 and
denote the standard part and non-standard part of
. While dealing with scientific and engineering problems in real life applications, it is difficult to use a neutrosophic set with values from
. In order to overcome this draw back, Wang et al. [
13] defined the single-valued neutrosophic set, which is a particular case of the neutrosophic set.
Definition 2. [13] Let X be a space of points (objects) with a generic element in X denoted by x. Then is called a single-valued neutrosophic set in X if has of the form , where In this case, are called the truth membership function, indeterminancy membership function and falsity membership function, respectively. For conventional reasons and as there is no ambiguity, we refer a single-valued neutrosophic set simply as a neutrosophic set throughout this paper; we also restate the definition, in order to view it explicitly as a function from a non-empty set X to , in the following way:
Let X be a nonempty set and . A neutrosophic set on X is a mapping defined as , where and such that .
We denote the set of all neutrosophic sets of X by and the neutrosophic sets and by and respectively. Let ; then
;
;
;
.
Definition 3. [1,4] Let X be a non-empty set and let be given by and . Then For an any arbitrary collection of neutrosophic sets the union and intersection are given by
.
Definition 4. Let X be a nonempty set and . If , and , then a neutrosophic point in X given byWe say if . To avoid the ambiguity, we denote the set of all neutrosophic points by . Definition 5. A neutrosophic set is said to be quasi-coincident with another neutrosophic set , denoted by , if there exists an element such thatIf is not quasi-coincident with , then we write Definition 6. [14] Let X be a nonempty set. Then a neutrosophic set is said to be a smooth neutrosophic topology on X if it satisfies the following conditions: - C1
- C2
, ∀
- C3
, ∀
The pair is called a smooth neutrosophic topological space.
3. The Basis for a Smooth Neutrosophic Topology
The main objective of this section is to define and discuss the concept of basis for a neutrosophic topology. Many fundamental classical statements and theories describe ways to obtain a topology from a basis; every topology is a basis for itself; characterizations of a set to form a basis; comparison of two topologies is a way to get a basis from a subbasis; quasi-neighborhood systems are discussed. Though the structural development of the theory is same as the ones followed in the context of classical and fuzzy topological spaces, the strategies following the proofs of the statements are entirely different. We start with the definition of a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology.
Definition 7. Let be a function that satisfies:
- B1
If and , then there exists such that - B2
If , and , then there exists such that ,
Then is called a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on X.
Any function satisfying B1 is called a subbasis of a smooth neutrosophic topology on X. A collection of neutrosophic sets is said to be an inner cover for a neutrosophic set if .
Definition 8. Let be a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on X. Then the smooth neutrosophic topology generated by is defined as follows:where is the collection of all inner covers of . It is clear to see that ; the strict inequality may hold; in fact, it may happen that and ; however, this is not unnatural as even in the crisp theory a subset that is not an element of a basis may be an element of the topology generated by it. However, we have a question: “If , can ?” Of course this may happen, as seen in the following example.
Example 1. Let . For any subset , let denote the neutrosophic set in X defined byDefine byThen is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on X. We note that , whereas and , whereas . Theorem 1. Let be a basis and be as defined in Definition 8; then is a smooth neutrosophic topology on X.
Proof. From the definition of
it directly follows that
. Next we wish to show that
. Indeed, let
and
; then by the definition of a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology, there exists
such that
and
, which in turn implies that
,
and
. Thus it follows that
If we let
, then it is easy to see that
is an inner cover for
. However, since
, we have
Therefore
Thus for every
, there exists an inner cover
of
such that
Therefore
and hence
.
Next we claim that
for any two neutrosophic sets
,
in
. Suppose
; then there is nothing to prove. Let
and let
. Then there exist inner covers
and
, such that
and
Let
for
and
and let
denote the set of all pairs
for which
. Now since
there exists an
such that
, which implies
and
; then by the definition of an inner cover there exist
and
in the corresponding inner covers, such that
and hence
. Thus we have
. Now for any
,
and
, let
be such that
and
Then the collection
is an inner cover for
and hence the collection
is an inner cover for
.
Additionally, we have,
Since this is true for every
and
we have
for any
,
in
.
Finally we prove that
for any collection
. For each
and for each
, let
be an inner cover for
such that
. Since
is an inner cover for
, we have
is an inner cover for
. Thus it follows that
which implies
for any collection
as desired. □
Definition 9. Let be smooth neutrosophic topological space. For all and , the mapping is defined as follows:The set is called a neutrosophic quasi-coincident neighborhood system. Further, a neutrosophic quasi-coincident neighborhood system is said to be symmetric if for any , , implies . Theorem 2. Let be neutrosophic topological space. Then for all
- (i)
;
- (ii)
;
- (iii)
implies ;
- (iv)
;
- (v)
Proof. As (i), (ii) and (iii) follow directly from the definition of
, we skip their proof. To prove (iv), first we observe that
Similarly, it follows that
, which implies
To prove the reverse inequality, consider
To prove (v), for any
with
, we have
, and therefore,
Hence, we have
as desired. □
Theorem 3. Let be a mapping. Then is a basis of a smooth neutrosophic topology if and only if and for all .
Proof. Let
be a basis for given smooth neutrosophic topology; then clearly
. Let
and
; then
. Let
; then for every
, we have
Let
; then there exists
with
such that
Thus there exists an
such that
and
. Hence for every
, there exists an
such that
, which in turn implies that
Thus it follows that,
This implies that
as desired.
Conversely, let
and
; then clearly
. However, since
and
, it is possible to find an
such that
, such that
. Thus,
B1 of Definition 8 follows.
Let
,
and
. First we claim that,
; consider
If
, then for every
with
and
, we have
Let
; then there exists
such that
Suppose
. Let
Then there exists
such that
Thus,
B2 of Definition 8 follows in both cases. □
Here we note that, “If
is a smooth neutrosophic topological space, then
is a basis for a smooth fuzzy topology on
X and the smooth fuzzy topology generated by
is itself.” In the following, we give certain theorems which can be proved in a similar fashion to Theorems 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 in [
10].
Theorem 4. Let be a smooth neutrosophic topology on X. Let be a function satisfying
- i.
for all
- ii.
If , , and , then there exists such that , and .
Then is a basis for the smooth neutrosophic topology on X.
Theorem 5. If is a basis for the smooth fuzzy topological space , then
- i.
for all .
- ii.
If , , and , then there exists such that , and .
Theorem 6. Let and be bases for the smooth neutrosophic topologies and , respectively, on X. Then the following conditions are equivalent.
- i.
is finer than .
- ii.
If , , and , there exists such that , and .
To end this section, we present a theorem which gives a way to get a basis from a subbasis, from which a smooth neutrosophic topology can be generated.
Theorem 7. Let be a subbasis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on X. Define aswhere is the family of all finite collections of members of such that . Then the is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on X. Proof. Since
, every
, and by the definition of
,
is well defined. As
clearly satisfies
B1 of Definition 7, it is enough to prove
B2. Let
,
,
in
and
. Then by the definition of
there exist collections
and
such that
and
Now let us define a collection of neutrosophic sets
, for
, as
If we let
, then
and therefore
Now by definition of
, we have
where
is the family of all finite collections
of members of
such that
. Thus it follows that
as desired. □
4. Product of Neutrosophic Topologies
In this section, we first define the concept of a finite product of smooth neutrosophic topologies, using the notion of basis defined in the previous section. We present a way to obtain the product topology from the given bases; in the following we present a subbasis for a product topology. Later, we generalize the discussed contents in the context of an arbitrary product of smooth neutrosophic topologies.
Definition 10. Let and be smooth neutrosophic topological spaces. Let be defined as follows:
Let . If for any and , then define . Otherwise, definewhere is the collection of all possible ways of writing as , where . Then is a basis for the smooth neutrosophic topology called the smooth neutrosophic product topology on .
Example 2. Let and let and be defined byandLet and be the functions defined byandThen clearly and are smooth neutrosophic topologies on and . From the above definition, we get given bywhich is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on and the smooth neutrosophic topology (product topology) generated by is given by Theorem 8. Let be the function defined in Definition 10. Then is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on .
Proof. If we let , then clearly of Definition 7 follows.
Let
,
,
in
and
. We wish to show that there exists
such that
and
Suppose any one of
and
, say
cannot be written as
for any
and
; then by letting
, we have
. However, by the definition of
, it follows that
and therefore
as desired. If both
and
can be written as
and
for some
and
, then by the definition of
, there exist
and
such that
,
and
Now if we let
, then
and
Now consider,
and hence
B2 of Definition 7 follows in this case also. □
Theorem 9. Let , be bases for the smooth neutrosophic topologies respectively. Define as follows:
If cannot be written as for any and , then define . Otherwise definewhere is the collection of all possible ways of writing as , where . Then is a basis for the product topology on .
Proof. First we claim that
is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on
. Let
,
and
. Now since
and
are bases for the smooth neutrosophic topologies
and
, there exist
and
such that
and
Let
; then we have
and
Thus
B1 of Definition 7 follows.
To prove
B2, let
,
and
. If any one of
and
, say
, cannot be written as
for any
and
, then by letting
, as in the above theorem,
B2 of Definition 7 follows. On the other hand, suppose both
and
can be written as
and
for some
and
; then by definition of
, there exist
, and
such that
,
,
and
Here it is easy to see that there exists
such that
,
and
, as
and
,
are in
.
Analogously, since and , are in , there exists in such that , and .
Let
; then we have
and
Thus
B2 of Definition 7 follows in this case also. Hence
is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on
. Thus, proving that the smooth neutrosophic topology generated by this basis coincides with the smooth neutrosophic product topology remains.
Let
be the smooth fuzzy topology generated by
. Let
be the product topology on
and
be the basis for
as described in Definition 10. Now we prove that
. Let
; then
where
is the collection of all inner covers
of
. Now we divide the collection
, say
, into two subcollections
and
where
is the collection all possible inner covers
of
so that for all
,
is of the form
for at least one
and one
, and
is the complement of
in
.
If an inner cover
of
is in
, then for at least one
,
is not of the form
for any
and
; hence
and therefore
and
If
, then
and hence it is enough to consider the case
. Now consider
This implies that,
.
To prove the reverse inequality, let
,
and
be as above. Let
be an inner cover for
. As above it is enough to consider the case
. Now let
. Then for all
, we have
for at least one
and one
. Fix a
. Let
denote the set of all pairs
such that
. Let
. Since
,
are bases for
,
, by Theorem 5, for any
,
and
there exist
and
such that
and
with
and
Clearly the collection
is an inner cover for
and the collection
is an inner cover for
. Therefore, the collection
is an inner cover for
which is equal to
. Thus for any pair
with
, we have an inner cover
of
such that
and
for all
,
and
.
Now since
using (
1) and (
2), we have
Since this is true for every
, it follows that
and hence we get
as desired. □
Theorem 10. Let and be smooth neutrosophic topological spaces. LetandLet . Define asThen is a subbasis for the smooth neutrosophic product topology on . Proof. Since , by letting , it clearly follows that is a subbasis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on . Thus all that remains is to show the smooth neutrosophic topology induced by this subbasis is the same as the product topology on . We do this by proving that the basis induced by this subbasis is the same as the basis defined in Definition 10.
Let
be the basis generated by
. Then for any
in
, we have
where
is the family of all finite collections
of neutrosophic sets in
for some finite indexing set
such that
, where each
. Let
be the basis for the smooth neutrosophic product topology on
as in Definition 10. Let
; then we claim that
. Suppose
is not of form
for any
and
. Then by Definition 10 we have,
. Now let us compute
. Let
be any representation of
as a finite intersection of neutrosophic sets of
. First we claim that
is neither of the form
nor of the form
for at least one
i. If
or
for all
i. Without loss of generality, let us assume that
for
and
for
, then we have
Now if we let and , then it follows that , which is a contradiction to our assumption that is not of the form . This proves the claim and hence . Since this is true for any representation of as a finite intersection, by the definition of we have . Thus in this case.
If
is of the form
for some
,
. First we claim that
. For, let
be a representation of
as a finite intersection of neutrosophic sets in
. If
is neither of the form
nor of the form
, for at least one
j, then it follows that
and hence
. Suppose all
’s are either of the form
or of the form
for some
and
; then we have
for all
i. Let
; then there exist
and
such that
for
and
for
. Then,
Let
and
. Then we have
.
Now consider
Since this is true for any representation of
as a finite intersection of neutrosophic sets in
, we have
To prove the reverse inequality, let
; then by Definition 10, there exist
and
such that
and
However,
; thus, we have,
which implies
as desired. □
Definition 11. Let be a collection of smooth neutrosophic topological spaces, for some indexing set J. Now define a function as follows:
Let . If where and except for finitely many , then define . Otherwise define where is the collection of all such that , and except for finitely many .
Then is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology called the smooth product topology on .
Theorem 11. Let be a collection of smooth neutrosophic topological spaces, for some indexing set J. Let be as defined in Definition 11; then is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on .
Proof. Since , B1 of Definition 7 follows trivially.
To prove B2, let , and . Let be the collection of all such that , and except for finitely many and let be the collection of all such that , and except for finitely many .
Suppose any one of the collections
and
, say
, is empty. Then by the definition of
, we get that
. Thus
B2 of Definition 7 follows in this case. If both collections
and
are nonempty, then there exist
in
and
in
such that
and
Let
; then clearly
and
Thus,
B2 of Definition 7 follows in this case also, and hence
is a basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on
. □
Theorem 12. Let be a collection of smooth neutrosophic topological spaces. For any , let be the collection of all such that , and except for finitely many . Let be defined as follows:Then is a subbasis for a smooth neutrosophic product topology on . Proof. Since , B1 of Definition 7 follows. Thus is a subbasis for a smooth neutrosophic topology on . Thus, proving that the smooth neutrosophic topology generated from is the smooth neutrosophic product topology on needs proving.
Now let be the basis generated by and let be the basis for the smooth neutrosophic product topology defined in Definition 11. To prove the topologies generated by and are same, we prove the stronger result that .
As
follows trivially, we prove the other cases. Let
and let
be the collection of all
such that
,
and
except for finitely many
. If
, then by the definition of
, we have
. Now to compute
, let
; we claim that there must exist at least one
which is not of the form
where
and
except for finitely many
. Suppose not; instead, let
where
and
except for finitely many
, for all
. Then using these finitely many
’s,
can be written in the form
where
and
except for finitely many
, which is a contradiction to our assumption that
. Thus there exists at least one
which is not of the form
where
and
except for finitely many
and hence
. Thus we have
Since this is true for any possible finite representation
of
, we have
and hence
in this case.
If
, then there must exist a representation
of
such that
for all
, where
is the collection of all
such that
,
and
except for finitely many
. Let
. Then for each
we can find a collection
such that
where
except for finitely many
and
. Now since
we have
Since this is true for any representation of
as a finite intersection of neutrosophic sets in
, we have
To prove the reverse inequality, let
. Since
, we can find a collection
such that
and
Thus it follows that
and hence
. Thus
in this case also and hence in all the cases. □
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we have defined the notion of a basis and subbasis for a neutrosophic topology as a neutrosophic set from a suitable collection of neutrosophic sets of X to . Using this idea of considering a basis as a neutrosophic set, we developed a theory of smooth neutrosophic topological spaces that fits exactly with the theory of classical and fuzzy topological spaces. Next, we introduced and investigated the concept of quasi-coincident neighborhood systems in this context. Finally, we defined and discussed the notion of both finite and infinite products of smooth neutrosophic topologies.
6. A Discussion for Future Works
The theory can extended in the following natural ways. One may
Study the properties of neutrosophic metric topological spaces using the concept of basis defined in this paper;
Investigate the products of Hausdorff, regular, compact and connected spaces in the context of neutrosophic topological spaces.