English

A Discrete and Bounded Envy-free Cake Cutting Protocol for Four Agents

Data Structures and Algorithms 2016-04-07 v2 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

We consider the well-studied cake cutting problem in which the goal is to identify a fair allocation based on a minimal number of queries from the agents. The problem has attracted considerable attention within various branches of computer science, mathematics, and economics. Although, the elegant Selfridge-Conway envy-free protocol for three agents has been known since 1960, it has been a major open problem for the last fifty years to obtain a bounded envy-free protocol for more than three agents. We propose a discrete and bounded envy-free protocol for four agents.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1508.05143,
  title  = {A Discrete and Bounded Envy-free Cake Cutting Protocol for Four Agents},
  author = {Haris Aziz and Simon Mackenzie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05143},
  year   = {2016}
}
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