1. Introduction
In 1999, Molodtsov [
1] initially suggested the idea of soft sets as a broad mathematical tool for handling uncertain situations. Molodtsov effectively utilized soft theory in some areas, including probability, theory of measurement, smoothness of functions, Perron integration, operations research, Riemann integration, and so on, in [
2].
Shabir and Naz [
3] started researching soft topological spaces in 2011. They defined the topology on the collection
of soft sets over
X. Thus, they developed many features of soft regular spaces, soft normal spaces, soft separation axioms, soft open and soft closed sets, soft subspace, soft closure, and soft nbd of a point. They also defined the fundamental concepts of soft topological spaces.
Kandil and colleagues introduced the concept of the soft ideal for the first time [
4]. Additionally, they presented the idea of soft local functions. These ideas are presented with the goal of identifying new soft topologies, termed soft topological spaces with soft ideal
, from the original one. Numerous mathematical structures, such as soft group theory [
5], soft ring theory [
6], soft primals [
7], soft algebras [
8,
9], soft category theory [
10], ideal spaces [
11], ideal resolvability [
12], and so on, have been addressed by soft set theory. Similarly, the notion of soft topology through soft grills was introduced in [
13]. Additionally, a large number of academics and researchers developed gentle versions of the traditional topological ideas, such as soft resolvable spaces [
14], soft hyperconnected spaces [
15], suitable soft spaces [
7], soft ideal spaces [
4,
16,
17], soft extremally disconnected spaces [
18], soft Menger spaces [
19], soft countable chain condition, and soft caliber [
20]. From here on, we shall refer to a soft ideal topological space
, a soft ideal space. The way this work is set out is as follows: Following the introduction, we discuss the definitions and findings that are necessary to understand the data in
Section 2. Next, we recall the notion of soft local functions in
Section 3. We study the fundamental operations on soft local functions. The definitions of soft hyperconnected and soft hyperconnected modulo ideal spaces, as well as a soft ideal topological space, are provided in
Section 4. We look at the basic characteristics and connections between soft hyperconnected and soft hyperconnected modulo ideals. A soft ideal resolvable space is defined in
Section 5 and it is demonstrated that soft ideal resolvable topologies over soft ideal resolvable subspace are also soft ideal resolvable. The concept of soft ideal semi-irresolvable space and an overview of its properties are provided in
Section 6. In
Section 7, we finish off by providing an overview of the major contributions and some recommendations for the future.
3. Soft Local Functions
Definition 5 ([
4])
. The non-null collection of soft subsets of is called a soft ideal on if- (a)
and , then .
- (b)
and , then .
Definition 6 ([
4])
. Let be a . Then, is called a soft local function of with respect to and soft topology τ, where is a soft open set containing . A soft subset of a soft ideal topological space “symbolized ” is said to be soft ideal dense if every soft point of is in , i.e., if .
Remark 1. For a , if is soft ideal dense, then is also soft ideal dense, i.e., .
A soft set
is called soft co-dense [
28] if
.
Theorem 1. Let be a . Then, the next characteristics are interchangeable:
- (a)
, where is a null soft set;
- (b)
If , then ;
- (c)
For any soft open , we have ;
- (d)
.
Proof. (a) → (b): Assume that and . Suppose that . Then, there exists a soft open set such that . Since , . This is contrary to . Therefore, .
(b) → (c): Assume that . Let ; then, there exists soft open set containing such that . Since is a soft open set, by (b) . This is incoherent, and so and .
(c) → (d): Since is a soft open set, .
(d) → (a): for all soft open sets and . Then, . □
4. Soft Hyperconnected Spaces
Definition 7. Let be a . We say that this space is:
- 1.
Soft hyperconnected “symbolized ” [17] if every pair of non-null soft open sets of has non-null intersection. - 2.
Soft modulo if the intersection of every two non-null soft open sets is not in .
- 3.
Soft ideal if every non-null soft open set is soft ideal dense in .
Lemma 1. A is soft modulo iff there are no proper soft closed sets and such that .
Proof. If there are proper soft closed sets and such that . If , then . and are non-null soft open sets with . This is incoherent. Hence, and are both proper soft closed sets. Then, and are non-null soft open sets. So, , which contradicts.
Conversely, assume that and are soft open sets in . So, and are proper soft closed sets in and . This implies that . Thus, . Hence, is soft modulo . □
Theorem 2. Let be a and . Then, is soft modulo if and only if is soft .
Proof. Assume that is a soft modulo . So, since , is soft .
Conversely, let be a soft and , be non-null soft open sets. Then, is a non-null soft open set in . Since , . Thus, is soft modulo . □
The following example show that, if , Theorem 2 is not true.
Example 1. Let be a , where , , and . Then, .
Since every pair of non-null soft open sets of has non-null soft intersection, is soft . But it is clear that it is not soft modulo .
Theorem 3. A soft topological space is soft iff the union of two not soft dense sets is a not soft dense set.
Proof. Assume that is soft and , are two not soft dense sets in . Then there exist two non-null soft open sets and such that and . Since is soft , . But and, hence, is not soft dense in .
Conversely, if the condition is true in but is not soft , then there exist two non-null soft open sets and such that . Hence, and . Then, and are not soft dense in . But . This contradicts the assertion that a union of two non-soft dense sets is also not a soft dense set. The theorem is therefore now proven. □
Lemma 2. Let be a . Then, is soft ideal if and only if is soft and .
Proof. Clearly, every soft ideal space is soft . Let be a non-null soft open set in the soft ideal. Then, . Conversely, yet, since , . Hence, . There is inconsistency here. Consequently, .
Conversely, let be a non-null soft open set. Let . Due to the soft property of , every soft open set containing meets . Moreover, is a soft open set and because . Thus, . This shows that is soft ideal dense. □
Theorem 4. Let be a , where . Then, a set is soft ideal dense if and only if whenever is non-null soft open and .
Proof. Let be soft ideal dense. So, for all non-null soft open sets . Hence, for all , , for, otherwise, and, hence, . Therefore, . Since , , which is contrary to . Therefore, .
Conversely, let whenever is a non-null soft open set and . Next, we assert that is soft ideal dense. Let be not soft ideal dense. Then, there exists some non-null soft open set such that . Let . So, since , is non-null but . This defies everything we had assumed. □
Theorem 5. Let be a , where . Then, is soft modulo if and only if whenever and are non-null soft open sets and .
Proof. From Lemma 2 and Theorem 4, the proof follows. □
5. Soft Ideal Resolvable Spaces
A soft space
is soft resolvable [
14], symbolized (
), if
is the union of two soft dense subsets which are disjoint.
A is soft ideal if it has two disjoint soft ideal dense sets; alternatively, it is claimed to be soft ideal irresolvable, symbolized ().
Lemma 3. Let be a .
- (1)
is soft ideal iff is the union of two disjoint soft ideal dense sets.
- (2)
If is soft ideal , then .
Proof. (1) Let and be disjoint soft ideal dense sets. Then, and , and, hence, . Therefore, is the union of soft ideal dense sets and . The opposite is evident.
(2) Let
and
be disjoint soft ideal dense sets. So, by Theorem 3.2 of [
4], we have
. Therefore,
is soft ideal dense. Thus, by Theorem 1,
. □
Remark 2. In citekandil it was obtained that is a soft Kuratowski closure operator. We will denote by the soft topology generated by , that is, .
Theorem 6 ([
29])
. Let be a . Then is a basis for . Theorem 7. A is soft ideal if and only if is soft and .
Proof. Let be soft ideal . So, by Lemma 3 (1), , where and are disjoint soft ideal dense sets of . Note that . Hence, and are soft dense in . Thus, is soft . By Lemma 3 (2), .
Conversely, let be soft and . Suppose that , , and both and are soft dense in . Let and ; then, there exists a soft open set containing such that . Since is soft dense in and , is non-null and also . Hence, by Theorem 6, is a non-null set and . This contradicts the fact that is soft dense in . Thus, and, hence, is soft ideal dense. A related argument demonstrates that is soft ideal dense. Thus, is soft ideal . □
Definition 8 ([
3])
. Let be a soft subset of ; then, is called a relative soft topology over Y and is a soft subspace of . Lemma 4. Let and be soft ideal in . Then, is soft ideal in .
Lemma 5. Let be a . The non-null soft -open subspace of a soft ideal space is a soft ideal space.
Proof. First, we know that the intersection of a soft dense and a soft open set is soft dense, so the soft resolvability is a soft open hereditary. Also, for all we have . Thus, by Theorem 7, if is soft ideal and A is -open, then is soft ; hence, is soft and, thus, is soft ideal . □
Theorem 8. Let be a . Simple expansion of soft ideal topologies over soft ideal subspace are soft ideal .
Proof. Let be soft ideal and be a soft ideal subspace. Let be the soft ideal resolution of . We examine the next two instances:
- Case (1):
is soft -dense in ; that is, . We first establish that is soft ideal dense in . Let . Suppose that for some soft open set with we have . The two subcases that follow are ours.
- Subcase (a):
. Then, is a soft open set of in such that due to the heredity of . This defies the assertion that is soft ideal dense in . So, is soft ideal dense in .
- Subcase (b):
. Since , . To demonstrate that , we believe the opposite, i.e., there exists a soft open set with such that . Note that ; otherwise, . Pick Since , then, by heredity of , . So, is not soft ideal dense in . By contradiction , i.e., is soft ideal dense in . So, we have demonstrated that . Using a comparable defense, . Let and let be a soft open set of in , where is the simple expansion of over . If , then, by heredity of , is a member of so that is a null set. Of course, cannot be a member of if is non-null since then must contain an element of . So, belongs to , which is also not eligible to join with since . This contradiction shows that is soft -dense. Using a comparable defense of , we determine that is soft ideal .
- Case (2):
is not soft -dense in . Then, , so it is -open and non-null. By Lemma 5, is soft ideal (more precisely said soft ideal with respect to ). Let be the soft ideal resolution of . By using reasoning akin to that of Case (1), we can prove that is a soft ideal resolution of . Additionally, employing the same method as at the conclusion of Case (1), we find that is soft ideal .
□
Theorem 9. A is soft ideal iff there exists a soft ideal dense set such that, for all non-null soft open sets and all , implies .
Proof. Let be soft ideal . So, by Remark 1 and Theorem 1, . Now, there exist two disjoint soft ideal dense sets, say and . We demonstrate that whenever for all non-null soft open sets and . If possible, let for some non-null soft open set and . Then, . Now, since , by Theorem 4 is not soft ideal dense. This is contrary to being soft ideal dense. Hence, whenever for all non-null soft open sets and .
However, allow the condition to persist in . Then, there exists a soft ideal dense set such that if for all non-null soft open sets and . We show that is soft ideal dense. Let be not soft ideal dense. Then there exists a non-null soft open set such that . Clearly, , for otherwise , which is contrary to our assumption. Let . Then, . For if then and, hence, , which suggests . Contrary to that, this is soft ideal dense. Therefore, . It goes against our presumption once more. Thus, is soft ideal dense and so is soft ideal . □
Corollary 1. A is soft ideal iff, for each soft ideal dense set , there exist a soft open set and such that .
Theorem 10. If is a such that and if is soft ideal dense in , then, for all , where is non-null soft open and , is soft ideal dense in .
Proof. Clearly, we suppose that
. Then, by Proposition 11 of [
3], a soft open set in
is of the form
, where
is a soft open set in
. Let
. Consider
,
. Then, since
is soft ideal dense and
is a soft open set in
, by Theorem 4,
. Hence,
. Therefore, again by Theorem 4,
is soft ideal dense in
. □
Theorem 11. Let be a such that and , where is a non-null soft open set, . Then, is soft ideal dense in if and only if , where is soft ideal dense in .
Proof. Assume that is soft ideal dense in . Consider the set . Then, , where is a non-null soft open set. Now, if , then and , and we have which is not in because . Moreover, if , then, since is soft ideal dense in , and so . Therefore, . Thus, , say, is soft ideal dense in and, hence, . Next, let , where is soft ideal dense in . Hence, by Theorem 10, is soft ideal dense in . This completes the proof of the theorem. □
Note that, as per the condition in Theorem 11, for soft ideal dense is necessary because if is not soft ideal dense then for some non-null soft open set , and, hence, is not soft ideal dense in .
6. Soft Ideal Semi-Irresolvable Spaces
Next, we will define and go over the characteristics of a soft ideal semi- space.
Definition 9. A is a said to be soft ideal semi- if for each soft ideal dense set and each non-null soft open set and such that is non-null set, there exists a non-null soft open set and such that .
Theorem 12. A is a soft ideal semi- , iff the intersection of soft ideal dense sets is a soft ideal dense set, where .
Proof. Assume that is a soft ideal semi- and . Let and be two soft ideal dense sets in . We demonstrate that is soft ideal dense. Consider , where U is a non-null soft open set and . As we demonstrate, . Since is soft ideal dense, by Theorem 4, . Since is soft ideal semi- , there exists a non-null soft open set and such that . Again, since is soft ideal dense, there exists a non-null soft open set and such that . Hence, . Therefore, and, by Theorem 4, is soft ideal dense.
Conversely, assume that the intersection of soft ideal dense sets is soft ideal dense. Assume that is not soft ideal semi- . Then, there exists a soft ideal dense set , and a non-null soft open set and , where , such that does not contain , for any non-null soft open set and . Consider the set . By Theorem 4, is soft ideal dense since . But . This contradicts the reality that the intersection of two soft ideal dense sets is a soft ideal dense set. Hence, must be soft ideal semi- . This concludes the theorem’s proof. □
Example 2. Let be a , where , . Consider and . Then, we have the following.
- 1.
.
- 2.
The collection of all soft ideal dense sets are , , and .
- 3.
The soft intersection of any soft ideal dense sets is soft ideal dense.
Hence, by Theorem 12, is soft ideal semi- .
Theorem 13. Let be a and . If is soft ideal semi- , then is soft ideal semi- whenever , for every non-null soft open set and .
Proof. Assume that and are soft ideal dense sets in . Then, by Theorem 11, and , where and are soft ideal dense sets in . Hence, and, since is a soft ideal dense set in , once more by Theorem 11, is soft ideal dense in . So, by Theorem 12, is soft ideal semi-. □
Definition 10. A is said to be soft ideal semi- if each , where is a soft open set and is a soft ideal dense set.
Theorem 14. A is soft ideal semi- iff it is soft ideal and .
Proof. Let be soft ideal semi-. Clearly, is soft ideal . Let be a non-null soft open set and a member of the soft ideal . Then, since is soft ideal . Conversely, yet, since , , it is paradoxical. So .
Conversely let be a soft ideal and . Let , where is a non-null soft open set and . Then because . We show that is soft ideal dense. Let and be a soft open set containing . By Lemma 2, is soft and because and . Thus, is soft ideal semi-. □
Example 3. Let be a , where , . Consider and . Then
- 1.
.
- 2.
Every non-null soft open set is soft ideal dense. So, is soft ideal .
Hence, by Theorem 14, is soft ideal semi- .
Theorem 15. If a is soft ideal semi- and soft ideal , then it is soft ideal semi-.
Proof. By Theorem 14, . Let and be two soft ideal dense sets in . We demonstrate that is soft ideal dense. By Theorem 4, it suffices to demonstrate that for all non-null soft open sets and . So, since is soft ideal , by Corollary 1, there exists a non-null soft open set and such that . Similarly, there exists a non-null soft open set and such that . Now, is soft by Lemma 2 and Theorem 14; we have . Since , and, hence, . Therefore, by the soft ideal semi- property of , is soft ideal dense and, by Theorem 4, we have and, hence, . Therefore, is soft ideal dense. So, by Theorem 12, is soft ideal semi-. □
Remark 3. For a , if . Then, no soft ideal dense set exists, because, if and there exists , any soft ideal dense, then , so by Remark 1 we have . Hence, by Theorem 1, , which is a contradiction. Therefore, if then no soft ideal dense set exists.
Question: Is there any example of soft ideal topological space such that , and Theorems 10–14 are true?