Convex Equipartitions inspired by the little cubes operad
Abstract
A decade ago two groups of authors, Karasev, Hubard and Aronov, and Blagojevi\'c and Ziegler, have shown that the regular convex partitions of a Euclidean space into parts yield a solution to the generalised Nandakumar and Ramana-Rao conjecture when is a prime power. This was obtained by parametrising the space of regular equipartitions of a given convex body with the classical configuration space. Now, we repeat the process of regular convex equipartitions many times, first partitioning the Euclidean space into parts, then each part into parts, and so on. In this way we obtain iterated convex equipartions of a given convex body into parts. Such iterated partitions are parametrised by the (wreath) product of classical configuration spaces. We develop a new configuration space -- test map scheme for solving the generalised Nandakumar \& Ramana-Rao conjecture using the Hausdorff metric on the space of iterated convex equipartions. The new scheme yields a solution to the conjecture if and only if all the 's are powers of the same prime. In particular, for the failure of the scheme outside prime power case we give three different proofs.
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@article{arxiv.2305.10711,
title = {Convex Equipartitions inspired by the little cubes operad},
author = {Pavle V. M. Blagojevic and Nikola Sadovek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.10711},
year = {2024}
}
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Dedicated to G\"unter M. Ziegler on the occasion of his 60th Birthday