Topology of the Grünbaum–Hadwiger–Ramos hyperplane mass partition problem

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7528zbMATH Open1396.52011OpenAlexW2963261547WikidataQ123117191 ScholiaQ123117191MaRDI QIDQ4580342FDOQ4580342

Authors Pavle V. M. Blagojević, Florian Frick, Albert Haase, Günter M. Ziegler 

Publication date 15 August 2018

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02975

zbMATH Keywords

Grünbaum-Hadwiger-Ramos hyperplane mass partition problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Helly-type theorems and geometric transversal theory (52A35) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Spectral sequences and homology of fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R20)

Abstract: In 1960 Gr"unbaum asked whether for any finite mass in $mathbb{R}^d$ there are $d$ hyperplanes that cut it into $2^d$ equal parts. This was proved by Hadwiger (1966) for $dle3$, but disproved by Avis (1984) for $dge5$, while the case $d=4$ remained open. More generally, Ramos (1996) asked for the smallest dimension $Delta(j,k)$ in which for any $j$ masses there are $k$ affine hyperplanes that simultaneously cut each of the masses into $2^k$ equal parts. At present the best lower bounds on $Delta(j,k)$ are provided by Avis (1984) and Ramos (1996), the best upper bounds by Mani-Levitska, Vre'cica & v{Z}ivaljevi'c (2006). The problem has been an active testing ground for advanced machinery from equivariant topology. We give a critical review of the work on the Gr"unbaum--Hadwiger--Ramos problem, which includes the documentation of essential gaps in the proofs for some previous claims. Furthermore, we establish that $Delta(j,2)=frac12(3j+1)$ in the cases when $j-1$ is a power of $2$, $jge5$.

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