(1) Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 34 Somerset Street E., KIN 9B4 Ottawa, Canada;(2) Department of Mathematics, College of Science, P.O. Box 2455, 11451 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abstract:
A natural way to prove that a particular linear extension of an ordered set is ‘optimal’ with respect to the ‘jump number’
is to transform this linear extension ‘canonically’ into one that is ‘optimal’. We treat a ‘greedy chain interchange’ transformation
which has applications to ordered sets for which each ‘greedy’ linear extension is ‘optimal’.