The relationship between modular metrics and fuzzy metrics revisited

Abstract

In a famous article published in 1975, Kramosil and Mich\'{a}lek introduced a notion of fuzzy metric that was the origin of numerous researches and publications in several frameworks and fields. In 2010, Chistyakov introduced and discussed in detail the concept of modular metric. Since then, some authors have investigated the problem of establishing connections between the notions of fuzzy metric and modular metric, obtaining positive partial solutions. In this paper, we are interested in determining the precise relationship between these two concepts. To achieve this goal, we examine a proof, based on the use of uniformities, of the important result that the topology induced by a fuzzy metric is metrizable. As a consequence of that analysis, we introduce the notion of a weak fuzzy metric and show that every weak fuzzy metric, with continuous t-norm the minimum t-norm, generates a modular metric and, conversely, we show that every modular metric generates a weak fuzzy metric, with continuous t-norm the product t-norm. It follows that every modular metric can be generated from a suitable weak fuzzy metric, and that several examples and properties of modular metrics can be directly deduced from those previously obtained in the field of fuzzy metrics.

Keywords

• fuzzy metric
• weak fuzzy metric
• modular metric

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