Note on one inequality and its application in intuitionistic fuzzy sets theory. Part 1

The inequality \mu^{\frac{1}{\nu}} + \nu^{\frac{1}{\mu}} \leq 1 is introduced and proved, where \mu and \nu are real numbers, for which \mu, \nu \in [0, 1] and \mu + \nu \leq 1. The same inequality is valid for \mu = \mu_A(x), \nu = \nu_A(x), where \mu_A and \nu_A are the membership and the non-membership functions of an arbitrary intuitionistic fuzzy set A over a fixed universe E and x \in E. Also, a generalization of the above inequality for arbitrary n \geq 2 is proposed and proved.