On the complexity of growth of the number of distinct fuzzy switching functions (Q801876)

In this paper the authors give some analytical properties of fuzzy switching functions. The main result refers to a bijection between the set of fuzzy switching functions and the set of the functions \(f:\{0,1/2,1\}^ n\to \{0,1/2,1\}\) which verify some properties. Based on this property, the authors obtain improved lower and upper bounds for the number of fuzzy switching functions of n variables. The exact number of these functions remains open.