International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 13, Pages 679-696
doi:10.1155/S0161171204305247

N-topo nilpotency in fuzzy neighborhood rings

T. M. G. Ahsanullah and Fawzi Al-Thukair

Department of Mathematics, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Received 15 May 2003

Copyright © 2004 T. M. G. Ahsanullah and Fawzi Al-Thukair. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We introduce the notion of N-topo nilpotent fuzzy set in a fuzzy neighborhood ring and develop some fundamental results. Here we show that a fuzzy neighborhood ring is locally inversely bounded if and only if for all 0<α<1, the α-level topological rings are locally inversely bounded. This leads us to prove a characterization theorem which says that if a fuzzy neighborhood ring on a division ring is Wuyts-Lowen WNT2 and locally inversely bounded, then the fuzzy neighborhood ring is a fuzzy neighborhood division ring. We also present another characterization theorem which says that a fuzzy neighborhood ring on a division ring is a fuzzy neighborhood division ring if the fuzzy neighborhood ring contains an N-topo nilpotent fuzzy neighborhood of zero.