The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the concept of orthogonality in the fuzzy metric spaces. At last we introduce and discuss the concept of orthogonality in the fuzzy normed spaces, and obtain some results on orthogonality in fuzzy normed spaces similar to orthogonality in normed spaces.

A broad and a narrow level of a quantum dot connected to two external leads may swap their respective occupancies as a function of an external gate voltage. By mapping this problem onto a multiflavored Coulomb gas we show that such population switching is not abrupt. However, trying to measure it by adding a third electrostatically coupled lead may render this switching an abrupt first order qu...

Let φ : Cn×Cn → C, φ((x1, ..., xn), (y1, ..., yn)) = (x1−y1)+ ...+ (xn − yn). We say that f : Rn → Cn preserves distance d ≥ 0 if for each x, y ∈ Rn φ(x, y) = d implies φ(f(x), f(y)) = d. We prove that if x, y ∈ Rn (n ≥ 3) and |x − y| = ( √ 2 + 2/n)k · (2/n)l (k, l are nonnegative integers) then there exists a finite set {x, y} ⊆ Sxy ⊆ Rn such that each unit-distance preserving mapping from Sxy...

Let φ : Cn×Cn → C, φ((x1, ..., xn), (y1, ..., yn)) = (x1−y1)+ ...+ (xn − yn). We say that f : Rn → Cn preserves distance d ≥ 0 if for each x, y ∈ Rn φ(x, y) = d2 implies φ(f(x), f(y)) = d2. We prove that if x, y ∈ Rn (n ≥ 3) and |x − y| = ( √ 2 + 2/n)k · (2/n)l (k, l are nonnegative integers) then there exists a finite set {x, y} ⊆ Sxy ⊆ Rn such that each unit-distance preserving mapping from S...

In this paper, let $L$ be a completeresiduated lattice, and let {bf Set} denote the category of setsand mappings, $LF$-{bf Pos} denote the category of $LF$-posets and$LF$-monotone mappings, and $LF$-{bf CSLat}$(sqcup)$, $LF$-{bfCSLat}$(sqcap)$ denote the category of $LF$-completelattices and $LF$-join-preserving mappings and the category of$LF$-complete lattices and $LF$-meet-preserving mapping...

We deal with a conditional functional inequality x ⊥ y ⇒ ‖ f (x + y)− f (x)− f (y) ‖ ≤ (‖ x‖ + ‖ y‖ ), where ⊥ is a given orthogonality relation, is a given nonnegative number, and p is a given real number. Under suitable assumptions, we prove that any solution f of the above inequality has to be uniformly close to an orthogonally additive mapping g, that is, satisfying the condition x ⊥ y ⇒ g(...

Maximum likelihood mapping is one of the approaches applied to simultaneous localization and mapping problems. According to such formulation map estimation corresponds to the configuration that maximizes the likelihood associated to a constraint network representing the map. Several efficient iterative fixed-point techniques have been proposed to solve this optimization problem in practice, but...