D. Molodtsov (1999) introduced the concept of a soft set as a new approach for modeling uncertainties. The aim of this work is to define special kinds of soft sets, namely soft, L-fuzzifying soft, L-soft, and L-fuzzy soft neighborhood sets and to use them in order to give an alternative characterization of categories related to topology: crisp topological, L-topological, L-fuzzifying topologica...

It is shown that, for any spatial frame L (i.e., L is a complete lattice generated by the set of all prime elements), both the specialization L-preorder of L-topological spaces introduced by Lai and Zhang [Fuzzy preorder and fuzzy topology, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 157 (2006) 1865–1885] and that of L-fuzzifying topological spaces introduced by Fang and Qiu [Fuzzy orders and fuzzifying topologies,...

Since Chang [2] introduced fuzzy theory into topology, many authors have discussed various aspects of fuzzy topology. It is well known that weakly induced and induced topological spaces play an important role in L-topological spaces (see book [8]). According to their value ranges, L-topological spaces form different categories. Clearly, the investigation on their relationships is certainly impo...

We study L-categories of lattice-valued convergence spaces. Suchcategories are obtained by fuzzifying" the axioms of a lattice-valued convergencespace. We give a natural example, study initial constructions andfunction spaces. Further we look into some L-subcategories. Finally we usethis approach to quantify how close certain lattice-valued convergence spacesare to being lattice-valued topologi...

The original definition of a topological space given by Hausdorff used neighborhood systems. Lattice-valued maps appear in this context when you identify a topology with a monoid in the Kleisli category of the filter monad on SET. H?hle’s notion of a lattice-valued topology [2] uses the same idea and it’s inspired in the classical lattice-valued topologies. Ltopological spaces are motivated by ...

The concept of a fuzzifying topology was given in [1] under the name L-fuzzy topology. Ying studied in [9, 10, 11] the fuzzifying topologies in the case of L = [0,1]. A classical topology is a special case of a fuzzifying topology. In a fuzzifying topology τ on a set X , every subset A of X has a degree τ(A) of belonging to τ, 0 ≤ τ(A) ≤ 1. In [4], we defined the degrees of compactness, of loca...

In the present paper, we introduce topological notions defined by means of α-open sets when these are planted into the framework of Ying’s fuzzifying topological spaces (by Lukasiewicz logic in [0, 1]). We introduce T 0 −, T 1 −, T 2 (αHausdorff)-, T 3 (α-regular)and T 4 (αnormal)-separation axioms. Furthermore, the R 0− and R 1− separation axioms are studied and their relations with the T 1 − ...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a concept of$L$-fuzzifying topological groups (here $L$ is a completelydistributive lattice) and discuss some of their basic properties andthe structures. We prove that its corresponding $L$-fuzzifyingneighborhood structure is translation invariant. A characterizationof such topological groups in terms of the corresponding$L$-fuzzifying neighborhoo...