Exchange properties of combinatorial closure spaces (Q1083458)

A closure space E is equipped with a closure operator on subsets which is extensive (A\(\subseteq \bar A)\), idempotent (\(\bar{\bar A}=\bar A)\) and monotone \((A\subset B\) implies \(\bar A\subset \bar B)\). Closure spaces have beenstudied in a great variety of settings and for a long period of time. The literature is quite enormous. The author's paper is concerned with a discussion of the relationships between various exchange properties (Steinitz, MacLane, Steinitz-Maclane or Strong MacLane exchange properties) in the presence of various other conditions (strongness, subadditivity, submodularity) to derive analogs or generalizations of important results in this area (Kurosh-Ore theorems, dimension theorems) using various extra ingredients (monotonicity, cyclicity, independent representations of sets etc.) to obtain an excellent updating on the status of affairs in this area which would be good to use in many a graduate course's preliminary chapter on important generalities.