Fuzzy semirings

In this paper we initiate the study of fuzzy semirings and fuzzy A-semimodules where A is a semiring and A-semimodules are representations of A. In particular, semirings all of whose ideals are idempotent, called fully idempotent semirings, are investigated in a fuzzy context. It is proved, among other results, that a semiring A is fully idempotent if and only if the lattice of fuzzy ideals of A is distributive under the sum and product of fuzzy ideals. It is also shown that the set of proper fuzzy prime ideals of a fully idempotent semiring A admits the structure of a topological space, called the fuzzy prime spectrum of A.