A general Hobby-Rice theorem and cake cutting (Q5957377)

Let \(E\) be a separable Banach space, \(X\) a Borel subset of \(E\), and \(\mu\) a non atomic \(\sigma\)-finite Borel measure on \(X\). The author extends to this context a theorem of \textit{C. R. Hobby} and \textit{J. R. Rice} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 16, 665-670 (1965; Zbl 0142.09802)]. If \(G\) is an \(m\) - dimensional subspace of \(L_{1}(X,\sum,\mu)\) then there exist \(l\in E^{\ast}\) and the numbers \(-\infty =x_{0}<x_{1}\cdots<x_{n+1}=+\infty\), \(( n\leq m) \) such that for every \(g\in G\) one has \( \sum_{i=0}^{n}( -1) ^{i} \int_{X\cap l^{-1}[ x_{i-1},x_{i}] }=0\). In the last part of the paper there are given applications of this theorem to the cake cutting problem.