Fair partitioning by straight lines
Abstract
A pizza is a pair of planar convex bodies ,where represents the dough and the topping of the pizza. A partition of a pizza by straight lines is a succession of double operations:a cut by a full straight line, followed by a Euclidean move of one of theresulting pieces; then the procedure is repeated.The final partition is said to be fair if each resulting slice has the same amount of and the same amount of .This note proves that, given an integer , there exists a fair partition by straight lines of any pizza into parts if and onlyif is even.The proof uses the following result:For any planar convex bodies with , and any, there exists an -section of which is a-section of for some . (An -section of is a straight line cutting into two parts, one of which has area .)The question remains open if the word "planar" is dropped.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.02090,
title = {Fair partitioning by straight lines},
author = {Augustin Fruchard and Alexander Magazinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.02090},
year = {2015}
}