I have formulated a linear program with binary indicator variables $z_i(a)$ which is equal to $1$ if the $i^{th}$ document is of rank $a$ and $0$ otherwise. 

The other variables in the linear program, $z^1_{ij}(a), z^2_{ij}(a)$ are defined as follows:

\begin{eqnarray}
z^1_{ij}(a) \equiv z_i(a)  \sum_{b < a} z_j(b), 
 \\
z^2_{ij}(a) \equiv z_i(a)  \sum_{b\geq a} z_j(b).
\end{eqnarray}

I am trying to convert the above non-linear constraint to the following set of equivalent linear constraints:

$$z^1_{ij}(a) + z^2_{ij}(a) = z_i(a), \forall i, j, a$$

The problem I am facing is that, the above set of linear constraints are clearly not equivalent to the definition of $z^1_{ij}(a), z^2_{ij}(a)$. Any ideas if it is possible to convert such non-linear ranking type constraints to linear constraints?