Excess of a coalition
= Excess of a coalition
{title2=$e(S,x)=v(S)-\sum_{i\in S}x_i$}
= Excesses of a coalition
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The excess measures a <coalition>'s complaint against an allocation: a positive excess means its own attainable value exceeds its assigned total. The <core of a cooperative game> requires every excess to be nonpositive at an efficient allocation. The <nucleolus> lexicographically minimizes the decreasingly sorted excess vector over <imputations>.