Optimal matchings in posets (Q792355)

From the author's preface: ''We want to match (order)ideals of posets P and Q with respect to a relation that associates with every element of P an ideal of Q and conversely. The general theory for this distributive analog of classical matching theory is investigated and analogs of classical theorems are obtained. The collection of matchable ideals of P gives rise to a distributive supermatroid whose lattice of closed ideals is representable in the lattice of subspaces of a projective geometry. It is shown that with respect to order reversing weightings on P and Q, optimal matchings may be constructed according to the greedy algorithm for posets. The theory of integral vector linkings is discussed within this context.''