Fuzzy prime ideals of a ring (Q916748)

Fuzzy ideals were introduced by \textit{W. J. Liu} [cf. Fuzzy Sets Syst. 8, 133-139 (1982; Zbl 0488.20005) and Inf. Sci. 50, 111-122 (1990; Zbl 0701.06010)]. This paper explains that the notion of fuzzy prime ideal is not very interesting (it reduces to that of a modified characteristic function). In particular, if P: \(R\to [0,1]\) is a fuzzy prime ideal in a ring R, then there exist a prime ideal \(I\subset R\), and a constant \(t\in [0,1)\) such that \(P(x)=1\), if \(x\in I\) and \(P(x)=t\), otherwise.