The supremum and infimum of the set of fuzzy numbers and its application (Q1363587)

A mapping \(u:R\to [0,1]\) is a fuzzy number, if it is normal (there exist \(x_0\in R\) such that \(u(x_0) =1)\), convex (i.e. all cuts \(\{x;u(x) \geq r\}\) are convex), upper semicontinuous, and if it has a compact support. The paper contains two main results. First, any bounded subset of the set of fuzzy numbers has a supremum and an infimum. Second, any continuous function from a compact interval to the set of fuzzy sets has a supremum and an infimum, of course, they need not be attained.