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The argument that the alarming level of Gini coefficient is 0.4 is very popular, especially in the media industry, all around the world for a long time. Although the 0.4 standard is widely accepted, the derivation of the value lacks rigid…
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The well known Jensen inequality, holds true for every convex functions. However, we found that it is possible to apply it to some problems related to nonconvex functions for which Jensen's inequality holds true locally. Having considered a…
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The aim of this note is twofold. Firstly, we prove an abstract version of the Calder\'on transference principle for inequalities of admissible type in the general commutative multilinear and multiparameter setting. Such an operation does…
In this paper, we draw attention to a promising yet slightly underestimated measure of variability - the Gini coefficient. We describe two new ways of defining and interpreting this parameter. Using our new representations, we compute the…
The celebrated Hardy inequality can be written in the form $$\int_0^\infty \mathcal{P}_p \big(f|_{[0,x]}\big)dx \le (1-p)^{-1/p} \int_0^\infty f(x)\:dx \qquad \text{ for }p\in(0,1)\text{ and }f \in L^1\text{ with }f\ge0,$$ where…
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There are two natural metrics defined on an arbitrary convex cone: Thompson's part metric and Hilbert's projective metric. For both, we establish an inequality giving information about how far the metric is from being non-positively curved.
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