Research Article
NearlySoftMengerSpaces
TareqM.Al-shami
1
andLjubiˇ saD.R.Koˇ cinac
2
1
Department of Mathematics, Sana’a University, Sana’a, Yemen
2
University of Niˇ s, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, 18000 Niˇ s, Serbia
CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoLjubiˇ saD.R.Koˇ cinac;lkocinac@gmail.com
Received 18 March 2020; Accepted 5 May 2020; Published 26 May 2020
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Inthispaper,wedefineaweaktypeofsoftMengerspaces,namely,nearlysoftMengerspaces.Wegivetheircompletedescription
usingsofts-regularopencoversandprovethattheycoincidewithsoftMengerspacesintheclassofsoftregular
⋆
spaces.Also,we
studytheroleofenrichedandsoftregularspacesinpreservingnearlysoftMengernessbetweensofttopologicalspacesandtheir
parametrictopologicalspaces.Finally,weestablishsomepropertiesofnearlysoftMengerspaceswithrespecttohereditaryand
topological properties and product spaces.
1.Introduction
etheoryofselectionprinciplesisanareaofmathematics
that studies the possibility of generating a mathematical
objectofonekindfromasequenceofobjectsofthesameor
differentkind.ebeginningsofthistheoryaregoingback
to Borel, Hurewicz, Menger, Rothberger, and Sierpi´ nski.
is theory is one of the important tools of numerous
subareas of mathematics such as set theory and general
topology, Ramsey theory, game theory, hyperspaces, func-
tion spaces, uniform structures, cardinal invariants, and
dimension theory.
In1924,Menger[1]studiedselectionpropertyunderthe
name Menger basis property and Hurewicz [2], in 1925,
reformulated it in the present form. Menger’s property is
strictly between σ -compactness and Lindel¨ ofness. e pa-
pers [3, 4] carried out a systematic study of selection
principles in topology and then research in this field ex-
panded immensely and attracted many researchers (see
surveypapers[5–7]andreferencestherein).Sometypesof
selection principles (so-called weak selection principles)
have been formulated by applying the interior and closure
operators in the definition of a selection property (see
[8–21])andtheothertypeshavebeenexploredbyreplacing
sequences of open covers by sequences of covers by some
generalizedopensets(see[22–24]).Inthispaper,weapply
theideasfromselectionprinciplestheorytosofttopological
spaces. In fact, we are focused on a weaker form of the
classical Menger covering property in the soft topology
settings.
SoftsetswereestablishedbyMolotdsov[25],in1999,asa
new technique to approach real-life problems which suffer
vagueanduncertainties.Heinvestigatedmeritsofsoftsets
compared with probability theory and fuzzy set theory.
Manyapplicationsofsoftsetshavebeenrecentlygivenon
the different areas such as decision-making problem, in-
formation theory, computer sciences, engineering, and
medicalsciences.In2011,ShabirandNaz[26]employedsoft
setsthataredefinedoveraninitialuniversesetwithafixed
setofparameterstointroducetheconceptofsofttopological
space. en, researchers have studied several concepts of
classicaltopologicalspacesthroughsofttopologicalspaces.
Softcompactness[27]andsomeweakvariantsofit[28–32]
havebeenestablishedandinvestigated.Oneofdivergences
between soft topological spaces and classical topological
spaces was discussed in [33].
is paper is organized as follows. Section 2 provides
basicdefinitionsandresultswhichareusedinthispaper.In
Section3,weestablishsomepropertiesofsoftsemiopenand
soft s-regular open sets which will help us to prove some
Hindawi
Journal of Mathematics
Volume 2020, Article ID 3807418, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/3807418