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What's the correct mathematical name for the partial ordering on vectors based on what is sometimes called "Pareto Dominance"?

Does Pareto Dominance have an alternative name in fields other than economics?

For two vectors of the same dimension, one Pareto Dominates the other if all its elements are greater than the corresponding element in the other vector.

flag	asked Nov 18 2009 at 1:04 Ben Hutchison 23●2

Jose Brox · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-18 02:04:33Z UTC

Depending on if you allow "greater" to mean "greater or equal" or to mean "strictly greater" we have two answers coming from Order Theory, respectively:

The product order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_order
The reflexive closure of the direct product of two strict total orders

Those two, along with the lexicographic order (which I searched to find this answer), are the three best-known choices among the possible orders on the Cartesian product of two totally ordered sets, as is stated in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order#Orders_on_the_Cartesian_product_of_totally_ordered_sets

Is there an agreed name for partial ordering based on Pareto Dominance relation?

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