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A Ham Sandwich Analogue for Quaternionic Measures and Finite Subgroups of S^3

Combinatorics 2011-09-06 v3 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

A "ham sandwich" theorem is established for n quaternionic Borel measures on quaternionic space H^n. For each finite subgroup G of S^3, it is shown that there is a quaternionic hyperplane H and a corresponding tiling of H^n into |G| fundamental regions which are rotationally symmetric about H with respect to G, and satisfy the condition that for each of the n measures, the "G average" of the measures of these regions is zero. If each quaternionic measure is a 4-tuple of finite Borel measures on R^{4n}, the original ham sandwich theorem on R^{4n} is recovered when G = Z_2. The theorem applies to [n/4] finite Borel measures on R^n, and when G is the quaternion group Q_8 this gives a decomposition of R^n into 2 rings of 4 cubical "wedges" each, such that the measure any two opposite wedges is equal for each finite measure.

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@article{arxiv.1009.5896,
  title  = {A Ham Sandwich Analogue for Quaternionic Measures and Finite Subgroups of S^3},
  author = {Steven Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.5896},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author. Now part of larger paper, Equivariant Equipartitions: Ham Sandwich Theorems for Finite Subgroups of Spheres