Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2013, Article ID 123798, 13 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/123798 Research Article Generalized Difference -Sequence Spaces Defined by Ideal Convergence and the Musielak-Orlicz Function Awad A. Bakery 1,2 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Arts, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80200, Khulais 21589, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, P.O. Box 1156, Abbassia, Cairo 11566, Egypt Correspondence should be addressed to Awad A. Bakery; awad bakery@yahoo.com Received 2 June 2013; Accepted 22 September 2013 Academic Editor: Abdelghani Bellouquid Copyright © 2013 Awad A. Bakery. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We introduced the ideal convergence of generalized diference sequence spaces combining an infnite matrix of complex numbers with respect to -sequences and the Musielak-Orlicz function over -normed spaces. We also studied some topological properties and inclusion relations between these spaces. 1. Introduction Troughout the paper , , , 0 , and denote the classes of all, bounded, convergent, null, and p-absolutely summable sequences of complex numbers. Te sets of natural numbers and real numbers will be denoted by N and R, respectively. Many authors studied various sequence spaces using normed or seminormed linear spaces. In this paper, using an infnite matrix of complex numbers and the notion of ideal, we aimed to introduce some new sequence spaces with respect to generalized diference operator Δ on -sequences and the Musielak-Orlicz function in -normed linear spaces. By an ideal we mean a family ⊂2 of subsets of a nonempty set satisfying the following: (i) ; (ii) ,  imply ∪∈ ; (iii) ∈, ⊂ imply ∈, while an admissible ideal of further satisfes {} ∈  for each ∈. Te notion of ideal convergence was introduced frst by Kostyrko et al. [1] as a generalization of statistical convergence. Te concept of 2-normed spaces was initially introduced by G¨ ahler [2] in the 1960s, while that of -normed spaces can be found in [3]; this concept has been studied by many authors; see for instance [47]. Te notion of ideal convergence in a 2-normed space was initially introduced by urdal [8]. Later on, it was extended to -normed spaces by urdal and S ¸ahiner [9]. Given that ⊂2 N is a nontrivial ideal in N, the sequence ( ) ∈N in a normed space (; ‖⋅‖) is said to be -convergent to ∈, if, for each >0,  () = { ∈ N : − ≥ } ∈ . (1) A sequence ( ) in a normed space (,‖ ⋅ ‖) is said to be -bounded if there exists >0 such that { ∈ N : > } ∈ . (2) A sequence ( ) in a normed space (,‖ ⋅ ‖) is said to be -Cauchy if, for each > 0, there exists a positive integer  = () such that { ∈ N : − ≥ } ∈ . (3) In paper [10], the notion of -convergent and bounded sequences is introduced as follows: let = ( ) =1 be a strictly increasing sequence of positive real numbers tending to infnity; that is, 0< 1 < 2 <⋅⋅⋅, → ∞ as  → ∞. (4) We say that a sequence  = ( )∈ is -convergent to the number ∈ C, called the -limit of , if Λ () as →∞, where Λ () = 1 =1 ( − −1 ) , ∈ N. (5)