This paper considers fuzzifying topologies, a special case of I -fuzzy topologies (bifuzzy topologies), introduced by Ying [1]. It investigates topological notions defined by means of α-open sets when these are planted into the framework of Ying’s fuzzifying topological spaces (by Lukasiewicz logic in [0, 1]) . The concept of α-irresolute functions and α-compactness in the framework of fuzzifying topology are introduced and some of their properties are obtained. We use the finite intersection property to give a characterization of fuzzifying α-compact spaces. Furthermore, we study the image of fuzzifying α-compact
spaces under fuzzifying α-continuity and fuzzifying α-irresolute maps.

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