Completions of cut systems in Q-sets

Let $ Q$ be a complete residuated lattice. Let $\text {SetR}(Q)$ be the category of sets with similarity relations with values in $ Q$ (called $ Q$ -sets), which is an analogy of the category of classical sets with relations as morphisms. A cut in an $ Q$ -set $(A,\delta )$ is a system $(C_{\alpha })_{\alpha \in Q}$ , where $C_{\alpha }$ are subsets of $A\times Q$ . It is well known that in the category $\text {SetR}(Q)$ , there is a close relation between special cuts (called f-cuts) in an $ Q$ -set on one hand and fuzzy sets in the same $ Q$ -set, on the other hand. Moreover, there exists a completion procedure according to which any cut $(C_{\alpha })_{\alpha }$ can be extended onto an f-cut $(\overline{C_{\alpha }})_{\alpha }$ . In the paper, we prove that the completion procedure is, in some sense, the best possible. This will be expressed by the theorem which states that the category of f-cuts is a full reflective subcategory in the category of cuts.