Oriented interval greedoids (Q664550)

An oriented interval greedoid is defined. This definition generalizes both the definition of an oriented matroid and the construction on antimatroids as introduced in [\textit{L. J. Billera, S. K. Hsiao} and \textit{J. S. Provan}, Discrete Comput. Geom. 39, No. 1--3, 123--137 (2008; Zbl 1166.52002)]. The Sphericity Theorem is an important result for oriented matroids which asserts that there is a regular CW-sphere associated to any oriented matroid, whose cells correspond to the covectors of the oriented matroid. Associated to each oriented interval greedoid is a spherical simplicial complex whose face enumeration depends only on the underlying interval greedoid.