STUDY OF FUZZY MEASURE AND SOME

PROPERTIES OF NULL-ADDITIVE FUZZY

MEASURE
Thesis
Submitted to the
KUMAUN UNIVERSITY,
NAINITAL, Uttarakhand, INDIA

FOR THE DEGREE OF

Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics

SUBMITTED BY
PARUL AGARWAL
M. Sc., M. Phil. (Mathematics)
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
DR. H.S. NAYAL
Associate Professor
Department of mathematics
Govt. Postgraduate College, Ranikhet (Almora)
UTTARAKHAND.
2015

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The precious gift of learning is a debt that is difficult to pay. Only

gratitude can be left. Indeed, the words at my command are
inadequate in form or in sprit to express my heartfelt, deep sense
of unbound gratitude and indebtedness to Dr. H. S. Nayal,
Associate

Professor,

Department

of

mathematics,

Govt.

Postgraduate College, Ranikhet (Almora), Uttarakhand. I feel

golden opportunity and proud privilege to work under the
inspiring guidance, imperative and facial suggestions of Dr. H. S.
Nayal, who is not just a guide, but an angelic to me. He has not
only helped me in my research work but also provided
benevolent guidance during the whole degree programme. I have
real appreciation and regard for him for his magnanimous and
cooperative attitude, painstaking efforts, peerless criticism and
especially for realizing to capitalize on my strength to work hard
and acquire confidence to deal with every difficulty.

I am immensely grateful to Dr. Sushil Jain and Dr. Priyanka

Pathak, Department of education, Govt. Postgraduate College,
Ranikhet (Almora), Uttarakhand for their scholastic guidance,
inspiring suggestions and help at various stages of the research
work and for their all time support, blessing, impeccable counsel
and cooperation during the course of present study.

I have deepest respect and regards for my father, Shri R. N.

Agarwal

and

mother,

Smt.

Kusum

Agarwal

for

their

encouragement, motivation and valuable guidance during this

academic venture. I dont have words to express my gratitude

and indebtedness to my brother, Mr. Saurabh Agarwal, who has
always motivated and inspired me to work. From the deepest
core of my heart, I express very affectionate thanks to my sister,
Dr. Nitu Agarwal, whose emotive support and care enabled me to
bring this work in shape. The love, affection and encouragement
that I got from my family are unforgettable. They are my
strength, my support and my pride.

I find myself incapable to express my warmest thanks to my

seniors,

juniors,

and

friends

for

their

encouragement,

suggestions, moral support during my study period and for the

enjoyable and precious moments shared with them.
Research fellowship provided by Kumaun University, Nainital
during period of my doctoral degree programme is thankfully
acknowledged.

Ranikhet

(Parul Agarwal)

June, 2015

Authoress

PREFACE

In the present thesis we deal with the study of fuzzy measure and
null-additive fuzzy measure which have wide applications in
computers, information technology, manufacturing systems,
production, communication, transportation systems etc. First
time, fuzzy set theory introduced by L. A. Zadeh in 1965. The
central concept of fuzzy measure theory is the fuzzy measure
which was introduced by Choquet in 1953 and independently
defined by Sugeno in 1974 in the content of fuzzy integrals. The
range of null-additivity set functions introduced by Wang.
In the first chapter we discuss some fundamental definitions and
concepts related to our research work. In this chapter we
discussed about the concept of measure, fuzzy, uncertainty, fuzzy
measure and null-additivity fuzzy measure. According to the
alternative view, uncertainty is considered essential to science; it
is not only an unavoidable plague, but it has, in fact, a great
utility. Fuzzy measure represent a type of uncertainty, we could
assign a value to each possible crisp set to which the element in
question might belong.
The aim of the second chapter is to discuss the differences and
similarities between probability measures and possibility
measures. This chapter thus establishes a new link between
probability and possibility theories. Secondly we discuss some
variants of fuzzy subsets entropies and the linking relations of
these quantities with indicate a similarity of many important
characteristics of fuzzy subsets entropies and Shannons entropy.
We analyze basic properties of entropy of fuzzy measure.

In the third chapter we discuss the connection between two type

of absolute continuity of a fuzzy measure with respect to a given
null-additive fuzzy measure. Also we studied some theorems of
Lebesgue decomposition type for null-additive fuzzy measure.
We proposed generalization of the concept of symmetric fuzzy
measure based in a decomposition of the universal set. At last we
discussed some properties of fuzzy measure.
In forth chapter we shall investigate strong regularity of fuzzy
measure on metric spaces. We discussed the regularity of a nulladditive fuzzy measure and proved Egoroffs theorem and
Lusins theorem for fuzzy measures on a metric space. We
discussed further regularity properties of null-additive fuzzy
measure on metric spaces. We studied some properties of
inner/outer regularity and the regularity of fuzzy measure under
null-additivity condition.
In the fifth chapter we studied some theorems on the
completeness of fuzzy measure space and some properties of
fuzzy measure and convergence in measure. We discuss
finite and purely atomic fuzzy measures. In this case the uniform
auto-continuity can be replaced with the null-additive. The
concept of two structural characteristics that are the pseudometric generating property and the auto-continuity play important
role in the fuzzy measure theory.

Contents

CHAPTER 1
Introduction
1.1 Measure
1.2 Fuzzy
1.3 Uncertainty
1.4 Fuzzy measure
1.5 Null-additive fuzzy measure
CHAPTER 2
Possibility Theory versus Probability Theory in Fuzzy
Measure Theory
2.1 Concept of associative probabilities to a fuzzy measure
2.2 Shannon Entropy of fuzzy measure
2.3 Basic properties of entropy of fuzzy measure
2.4 Application of entropy of fuzzy measure
CHAPTER 3
Properties of Null-Additive and Absolute Continuity of a
Fuzzy Measure
3.1 Absolute continuity of a fuzzy measure
3.2 Some results on null-additive fuzzy measure
3.3 Lebesgue decomposition type null-additive fuzzy
measure
3.4 Generalization of the symmetric fuzzy measure
3.5 Properties of fuzzy measures
CHAPTER 4
Properties of Strong Regularity of Fuzzy Measure on Metric
Space

4.1 Null additive fuzzy measure on metric space

4.2 Strong regularity of fuzzy measure on metric space
4.3 Properties of inner\outer regularity of fuzzy measure
CHAPTER 5
Continuous, auto-continuous and completeness of fuzzy
measure
5.1 Continuous and auto-continuous of fuzzy measure
5.2 Results on completeness of fuzzy measure space
5.3 Convergence in fuzzy measure
5.4 Some other properties of fuzzy measure and
convergence
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Published Research Papers