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Topology of the Gr\"unbaum--Hadwiger--Ramos problem for mass assignments

Algebraic Topology 2022-08-02 v1

Abstract

In this paper, motivated by recent work of Schnider and Axelrod-Freed \& Sober\'on, we study an extension of the classical Gr\"unbaum--Hadwiger--Ramos mass partition problem to mass assignments. Using the Fadell--Husseini index theory we prove that for a given family of jj mass assignments μ1,,μj\mu_1,\dots,\mu_j on the Grassmann manifold G(Rd)G_{\ell}(\R^d) and a given integer k1k\geq 1 there exist a linear subspace LG(Rd)L\in G_{\ell}(\R^d) and kk affine hyperplanes in LL that equipart the masses μ1L,,μjL\mu_1^L,\dots,\mu_j^L assigned to the subspace LL, provided that dj+(2k11)2log2jd\geq j + (2^{k-1}-1)2^{\lfloor\log_2j\rfloor}.

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@article{arxiv.2208.00666,
  title  = {Topology of the Gr\"unbaum--Hadwiger--Ramos problem for mass assignments},
  author = {Pavle V. M. Blagojević and Jaime Calles Loperena and Michael C. Crabb and Aleksandra S. Dimitrijević Blagojević},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.00666},
  year   = {2022}
}