Existence of a simple and equitable fair division: a short proof

DOI10.1016/J.MATHSOCSCI.2017.03.006MaRDI QIDQ2406943zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guillaume Chèze

Publication date 4 October 2017

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09804

zbMATH Keywords

allocationfair division\(n\) players

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32)

Abstract: In this note we study how to share a good between n players in a simple and equitable way. We give a short proof for the existence of such fair divisions.

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