Weakly prime and prime fuzzy ideals in ordered semigroups (Q2470030)

Intra-regular ordered semigroups play an important role in studying the structure, especially the decomposition, of ordered semigroups. Motivated by her study of the prime ideals and weakly prime ideals in intra-regular ordered semigroups [Semigroup Forum 46, 271--278 (1993; Zbl 0776.06013)], in the present paper she extends results in intra-regular ordered semigroups to fuzzy intra-regular ordered semigroups. She proves that the fuzzy ideals of an ordered semigroup \(S\) are weakly prime if and only if they are idempotent and they form a chain, and that they are prime if and only if \(S\) is intra-regular and the fuzzy ideals of \(S\) form a chain. Moreover, she shows that a fuzzy ideal of an ordered semigroup is prime if and only if it is both semiprime and weakly prime and that in commutative ordered semigroups the prime and weakly prime fuzzy ideals coincide. The results extend the corresponding results on semigroups (without order) given by \textit{G. Szász} [Publ. Math., Debrecen 17, 209--213 (1970; Zbl 0233.20026)] in the case of ordered semigroups using fuzzy sets.