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

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7528zbMATH Open1396.52011arXiv1502.02975OpenAlexW2963261547WikidataQ123117191 ScholiaQ123117191MaRDI QIDQ4580342FDOQ4580342

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

Publication date: 15 August 2018

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

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 $2$, $jge5$.

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)

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