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An Introduction to Fuzzy Soft Digraph Sarala N 1 Tharani S 2 1
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(Department of Mathematics, A.D.M.College for Women, Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu, India) (Department of Mathematics, E.G.S.Pillay Engineering College, Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu, India)
Abstract: Fuzzy sets and soft sets are two different tools for representing uncertainty and vagueness. We introduce the notions of fuzzy soft digraphs, fuzzy soft walk, fuzzy soft trail in digraph and some operations in fuzzy soft in fuzzy soft digraph. Keywords: fuzzy soft graph, fuzzy soft digraph, walk in fuzzy soft digraph, trail in fuzzy soft digraph, union and intersection in fuzzy soft digraph.
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Introduction
The Concept of soft set theory was initiated by Molodtsov [1] for dealing uncertainties. A Rosenfeld [2] developed the theory of fuzzy graphs in 1975 by considering fuzzy relation on fuzzy set, which was developed by Zadeh [3] in the year 1965. Some operations on fuzzy graphs are studied by Mordeson a C.S. Peng [4] .Later Ali et al. discussed about fuzzy sets and fuzzy soft sets induced by soft sets. M.Akram and S Nawaz [5] introduced fuzzy soft graphs in the year 2015. Sumit mohinta and T K samanta [6] also introduced fuzzy soft graphs independently. The notion of fuzzy soft graph and few properties related to it are presented in their paper. In this paper, fuzzy soft digraph, walk in fuzzy soft digraph, trail in fuzzy soft digraph and some operations are introduced.
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Preliminaries
We now review some elementary concepts of digraph and fuzzy soft graph Definition: 2.1 Let U be an initial universe set and E be the set of parameters. Let A ∠đ??¸ , A pair (F,A) is called fuzzy soft set over U where F is a mapping given by F : A → đ??ź đ?‘ˆ , where đ??ź đ?‘ˆ denotes the collection of all fuzzy subsets of U. Definition: 2.2 Let V be a nonempty finite set and đ?œŽ âˆś đ?‘‰ → 0, 1 . Again , let đ?œ‡ âˆś đ?‘‰ đ?‘‹ đ?‘‰ → [0,1] such that đ?œ‡ đ?‘Ľ, đ?‘Ś ≤ đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ ∧ đ?œŽ đ?‘Ś for all đ?‘Ľ, đ?‘Ś ∈ đ?‘‰ đ?‘‹ đ?‘‰. Then the pair đ??ş = (đ?œŽ , đ?œ‡) is called a fuzzy graph over the set V. Here đ?œŽ đ?‘Žđ?‘›đ?‘‘ đ?œ‡ are respectively called fuzzy vertex and fuzzy edge of the fuzzy graph G = (đ?œŽ , đ?œ‡ ) Definition: 2.3 A fuzzy digraph GD = (đ?œŽđ??ˇ , đ?œ‡đ??ˇ ) is a pair of function đ?œŽđ??ˇ âˆś đ?‘‰ → 0, 1 and đ?œ‡đ??ˇ âˆś đ?‘‰ đ?‘‹ đ?‘‰ → [0,1] Where đ?œ‡đ??ˇ đ?‘Ľ, đ?‘Ś ≤ đ?œŽđ??ˇ đ?‘Ľ ∧ đ?œŽđ??ˇ đ?‘Ś for all đ?‘Ľ, đ?‘Ś ∈ đ?‘‰ đ?‘‹ đ?‘‰ and đ?œ‡đ??ˇ is a set of fuzzy directed edges are called fuzzy arcs. Definition: 2.4 The degree of any vertex đ?œŽ(đ?‘Ľđ?‘– ) of a fuzzy graph is sum of degree of membership of all those edges which are incident on a vertex đ?œŽ(đ?‘Ľđ?‘– ) and is denoted by deg(đ?œŽ(đ?‘Ľđ?‘– )). Definition: 2.5 In a fuzzy digraph the number of arcs directed away from the vertex đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ is called the outdegree of vertex, it is denoted by od( đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ ). The number of arcs directed to the vertex đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ is called indegree of vertex, it is denoted by id(đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ ). The degree of vertex đ??ˆ đ?’™ in a fuzzy digraph is deined to be deg(đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ ) = id(đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ ) + đ?‘œđ?‘‘( đ?œŽ đ?‘Ľ ). Definition: 2.6 Let đ??ş = (đ?œŽ , đ?œ‡) be a fuzzy graph. The Order of đ?‘Ž = (đ?œŽ , đ?œ‡) is defined as đ?‘‚ đ??ş = đ?œŽ đ?‘˘ u ∈đ?‘‰ and the size of đ?‘Ž = (đ?œŽ , đ?œ‡) is defined as S đ??ş =
đ?œ‡ đ?‘˘, đ?‘Ł . u,v ∈ đ?‘‰
DOI: 10.9790/5728-1303024654
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