Pizza and 2-structures

DOI10.1007/S00454-023-00600-2MaRDI QIDQ6142344zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Ehrenborg, Sophie Morel, Margaret A. Readdy

Publication date 21 December 2023

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07288

zbMATH Keywords

2-structuresBolyai-Gerwien theoremCoxeter arrangementsdissectionsintrinsic volumespizza theorempseudo-root systemsreflection groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Dissections and valuations (Hilbert's third problem, etc.) (52B45) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: Let $mathcalH$ be a Coxeter hyperplane arrangement on $mathbb{R}^n$ with Coxeter group $W$. We assume that the map $-mathrmid$ is in the group $W$ and that $mathcalH$ is not of type $A_1^n$. Let $K$ be a measurable subset of $mathbb{R}^n$ with finite volume such that $K$ is stable by $W$ and let $ainmathbb{R}^n$ such that $K$ contains the convex hull of $w(a):winW$. The authors proved in a previous article that the alternating sum over the chambers $T$ of $mathcalH$ of the volumes of the sets $Tcap(K+a)$ is zero. In this paper we give a dissection proof of this result. In fact, we lift the identity to an abstract dissection group to obtain a similar identity with the volume replaced by any valuation that is invariant under affine isometries. This includes the cases of all intrinsic volumes. Apart from some basic geometry, the main ingredient is a previous theorem of the authors (the proof of which uses only properties of Coxeter systems and closed convex polyhedral cones) where we relate the alternating sum of the values of certain valuations over the chambers of a Coxeter arrangement to similar alternating sums for simpler subarrangements called $2$-structures.

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