The hamburger theorem

Publication date 19 February 2018

Abstract: We generalize the ham sandwich theorem to

d + 1

measures in

m a t h b b R^{d}

as follows. Let

m u_{1}, m u_{2}, d o t s, m u_{d + 1}

be absolutely continuous finite Borel measures on

m a t h b b R^{d}

. Let

o m e g a_{i} = m u_{i} (m a t h b b R^{d})

for

i i n [d + 1]

,

o m e g a = m i n o m e g a_{i}; i i n [d + 1]

and assume that

s u m_{j = 1}^{d + 1} o m e g a_{j} = 1

. Assume that

o m e g a_{i} l e 1 / d

for every

i i n [d + 1]

. Then there exists a hyperplane

h

such that each open halfspace

H

defined by

h

satisfies

m u_{i} (H) l e (s u m_{j = 1}^{d + 1} m u_{j} (H)) / d

for every

i i n [d + 1]

and

s u m_{j = 1}^{d + 1} m u_{j} (H) g e m i n (1 / 2, 1 - d o m e g a) g e 1 / (d + 1)

. As a consequence we obtain that every

(d + 1)

-colored set of

n d

points in

m a t h b b R^{d}

such that no color is used for more than

n

points can be partitioned into

n

disjoint rainbow

(d - 1)

-dimensional simplices.

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