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Pizza Sharing is PPA-hard

Computational Complexity 2026-03-13 v4 Computational Geometry General Topology

Abstract

We study the computational complexity of finding a solution for the straight-cut and square-cut pizza sharing problems. We show that computing an ε\varepsilon-approximate solution is PPA-complete for both problems, while finding an exact solution for the square-cut problem is FIXP-hard. Our PPA-hardness results apply for any ε<1/5\varepsilon < 1/5, even when all mass distributions consist of non-overlapping axis-aligned rectangles or when they are point sets, and our FIXP-hardness result applies even when all mass distributions are unions of squares and right-angled triangles. We also prove that the decision variants of both approximate problems are NP-complete, while the decision variant for the exact version of square-cut pizza sharing is R\exists\mathbb{R}-complete.

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@article{arxiv.2012.14236,
  title  = {Pizza Sharing is PPA-hard},
  author = {Argyrios Deligkas and John Fearnley and Themistoklis Melissourgos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14236},
  year   = {2026}
}

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