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The complexity of computing the Muirhead-Dalton distance

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Deineko, Vladimir G.
Klinz, Bettina
Woeginger, Gerhard J.
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We show that the following problem is NP-hard, and hence computationally intractable: "Given a vector y that Lorenz-dominates a vector x, what is the smallest number of Muirhead-Dalton transfers that transform x into y?"

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Mathematical Social Sciences.

Volume (Year): 57 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 (March)
Pages: 282-284
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Handle: RePEc:eee:matsoc:v:57:y:2009:i:2:p:282-284

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Keywords: D63 D81 I31 Income inequality Muirhead-Dalton transfer Lorenz-domination Majorization Computational complexity;

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