The Gini index of an integer partition

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Authors Grant Kopitzke

Publication date 3 November 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04284, https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL23/Kopitzke/kop2.html

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zbMATH Keywords

antichaindominance ordergenerating functionGini indexinteger partition

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Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Abstract: The Gini index is a number that attempts to measure how equitably a resource is distributed throughout a population, and is commonly used in economics as a measurement of inequality of wealth or income. The Gini index is often defined as the area between the Lorenz curve of a distribution and the line of equality, normalized to be between zero and one. In this fashion, we define a Gini index on the set of integer partitions and show that it is closely related to the second elementary symmetric polynomial, and the dominance order on partitions. We conclude with a generating function for the Gini index, and discuss how it can be used to find lower bounds on the width of the dominance lattice.

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