Topology and combinatorics of partitions of masses by hyperplanes

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2005.11.013zbMATH Open1110.68155OpenAlexW2049300118MaRDI QIDQ855777FDOQ855777

Authors P. Mani-Levitska, Siniša T. Vrećica, Rade Živaljević

Publication date 7 December 2006

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310377

obstruction theory cyclic words equivariant maps equipartitions of masses cohomological index theory

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Fixed points and coincidences in algebraic topology (55M20)

Abstract: One of our result is that 5 measurable sets in

R^{8}

always admit an equipartition by 2 hyperplanes. This is an instance of a general equipartition problem (formulated by B. Gr{" u}nbaum and H. Hadwiger) which can be reduced to the question of (non)existence of a

W_{k}

-equivariant map where

W_{k}

is the group of symmetries of a

k

-cube. We show that the computation of relevant cohomology/bordism obstruction classes often reduces to the question of enumerating the classes of immersed curves in

m a t h b b R^{2}

with a prescribed type and number of intersections with the coordinate axes, which in turn leads to a problem of enumerating classes of cyclic signed

A B

-words.

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