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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Fuzzy Systems Volume 2008, Article ID 295649, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2008/295649 Research Article Fuzzy Hypervector Spaces R. Ameri and O. R. Dehghan Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Mazandaran, 47415-453 Babolsar, Iran Correspondence should be addressed to R. Ameri, rez ameri@ Received 19 September 2007; Revised 27 February 2008; Accepted 11 May 2008 Recommended by Adel Alimi The aim of this paper is the generalization of the notion of fuzzy vector spaces to fuzzy hypervector spaces. In this regard, by considering the notion of fuzzy hypervector spaces, we characterized a fuzzy hypervector space based on its level sub-hyperspace. The algebraic nature of fuzzy hypervector space under transformations is studied. Certain conditions are obtained under which a given fuzzy hypervector space can or cannot be realized as a union of two fuzzy hypervector spaces such that none is contained in the other. The construction of a fuzzy hypervector space generated by a given fuzzy subset of a hypervector space is given. The set of all fuzzy cosets of a fuzzy hypervector space is shown to be a hypervector space. Finally, a fuzzy quotient hypervector space is defined and an analogue of a consequence of the “fundamental theorem of homomorphisms” is obtained. Copyright © 2008 R. Ameri and O. R. Dehghan. This 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. 1. INTRODUCTION as a generalization of fuzzy vector spaces, and hence can be