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Convex Equipartitions inspired by the little cubes operad

Algebraic Topology 2024-08-27 v2 Metric Geometry

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 nn parts yield a solution to the generalised Nandakumar and Ramana-Rao conjecture when nn 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 n1n_1 parts, then each part into n2n_2 parts, and so on. In this way we obtain iterated convex equipartions of a given convex body into n=n1...nkn=n_1...n_k 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 nin_i'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