Fuzzy uniform structures

Abstract

The concept of fuzzy uniform structure was introduced in [7] as a fuzzy counterpart of the concept of gauge associated with a uniformity. In fact, the category of fuzzy uniform structures is isomorphic to that of uniform spaces. Here, we introduce two other concepts of fuzzy uniform structures which allow to establish two categories isomorphic to the categories of probabilistic uniform spaces and Lowen uniform spaces, respectively. This sheds light on the relationship between these fuzzy uniformities and classical uniformities. Furthermore, we obtain a factorization of Lowen?s adjoint functors ?* and ? which establish a relationship between the categories of uniform spaces and Lowen uniform spaces.