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Axiomatic characterizations of dissimilarity orderings and distances between sets

Discrete Mathematics 2025-07-09 v1

Abstract

We characterize the orderings of pairs of sets induced by several distances: Hamming, Jaccard, S\o rensen-Dice and Overlap. We also characterize these distances.

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@article{arxiv.2507.05919,
  title  = {Axiomatic characterizations of dissimilarity orderings and distances between sets},
  author = {Thierry Marchant and Sandip Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05919},
  year   = {2025}
}