Hutton \([0,1]\)-quasi-uniformities induced by fuzzy (quasi-)metric spaces (Q2492325)

Schweizer and Sklar introduced the term probabilistic metric space to designate the notion of statistical metric space. It is well known that associated to any probabilistic metric space, there is a uniformity (the strong uniformity), whose generated topology is the strong topology \(=(\varepsilon,\lambda)\)-topology. It is also known that following the same pattern, one can associate to each fuzzy (quasi-) metric space a (quasi-) uniform space, whose generated topology \(((\varepsilon,\lambda)\)-topology) is (quasi-) metrizable. The main intention of the paper under review is to introduce a new construction to relate fuzzy (quasi-) metric spaces with some other well-known structures in fuzzy topology. To each fuzzy (quasi)-metric space \((X,M,*)\), a Hutton \([0,1]\)-quasi uniformity \({\mathcal U}_M\) is associated; this, in turn, gives a factorization via Hutton \([0,1]\)-quasi uniformities (using Katsaras' functor) of the association of a strong (quasi-) uniformity (or \((\varepsilon,\lambda)\)-(quasi-)uniformity) to each fuzzy \hbox{(quasi-)} metric space. It is also proved that the topology \(\tau_M\) generated by a fuzzy (quasi-) metric space is exactly the image under the Lowen functor of the \([0,1]\)-topology induced by \({\mathcal U}_M\). As a consequence, a class of Hutton \([0,1]\)-quasi-uniformities which are probabilistic metrizable has been achieved.