Sharing pizza in n dimensions
Abstract
We introduce and prove the -dimensional Pizza Theorem: Let be a hyperplane arrangement in . If is a measurable set of finite volume, the {pizza quantity} of is the alternating sum of the volumes of the regions obtained by intersecting with the arrangement . We prove that if is a Coxeter arrangement different from such that the group of isometries generated by the reflections in the hyperplanes of contains the map , and if is a translate of a convex body that is stable under and contains the origin, then the pizza quantity of is equal to zero. Our main tool is an induction formula for the pizza quantity involving a subarrangement of the restricted arrangement on hyperplanes of that we call the {even restricted arrangement}. More generally, we prove that for a class of arrangements that we call {even} (this includes the Coxeter arrangements above) and for a {sufficiently symmetric} set , the pizza quantity of is polynomial in for small enough, for example if is convex and . We get stronger results in the case of balls, more generally, convex bodies bounded by quadratic hypersurfaces. For example, we prove that the pizza quantity of the ball centered at having radius vanishes for a Coxeter arrangement with an even positive integer. We also prove the Pizza Theorem for the surface volume: When is a Coxeter arrangement and is a nonnegative even integer, for an -dimensional ball the alternating sum of the -dimensional surface volumes of the regions is equal to zero.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.06649,
title = {Sharing pizza in n dimensions},
author = {Richard Ehrenborg and Sophie Morel and Margaret Readdy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06649},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
25 pages, to appear in Transaction of the AMS