English

Pizza and 2-structures

Combinatorics 2023-10-18 v3

Abstract

Let H\mathcal{H} be a Coxeter hyperplane arrangement in nn-dimensional Euclidean space. Assume that the negative of the identity map belongs to the associated Coxeter group WW. Furthermore assume that the arrangement is not of type A1nA_1^n. Let KK be a measurable subset of the Euclidean space with finite volume which is stable by the Coxeter group WW and let aa be a point such that KK contains the convex hull of the orbit of the point aa under the group WW. In a previous article the authors proved the generalized pizza theorem: that the alternating sum over the chambers TT of H\mathcal{H} of the volumes of the intersections T(K+a)T\cap(K+a) is zero. In this paper we give a dissection proof of this result. In fact, we lift the identity to an abstract dissection group to obtain a similar identity that replaces the volume by any valuation that is invariant under affine isometries. This includes the cases of all intrinsic volumes. Apart from basic geometry, the main ingredient is a theorem of the authors where we relate the alternating sum of the values of certain valuations over the chambers of a Coxeter arrangement to similar alternating sums for simpler subarrangements called 22-structures introduced by Herb to study discrete series characters of real reduced groups.

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@article{arxiv.2105.07288,
  title  = {Pizza and 2-structures},
  author = {Richard Ehrenborg and Sophie Morel and Margaret Readdy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.07288},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

19 pages, 6 figures, to appear in "Discrete & Computational Geometry"

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