Nandakumar–Ramana Rao conjecture for convex bodies

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Let KK be a planar convex body and let n>1n>1 be a natural number. A partition of the plane into nn convex pieces is a collection of convex pieces P1,…,PnP_1,\ldots,P_n whose union is the plane. Nandakumar–Ramana Rao conjecture. There exists such a partition satisfying

area(P1∩K)=⋯=area(Pn∩K)\mathrm{area}(P_1\cap K)=\cdots=\mathrm{area}(P_n\cap K)

and

perimeter(P1∩K)=⋯=perimeter(Pn∩K).\mathrm{perimeter}(P_1\cap K)=\cdots=\mathrm{perimeter}(P_n\cap K).

The case n=2n=2 was proved by Nandakumar and Ramana Rao, and the case n=3n=3 was later resolved by Bárány, Blagojević, and Szűcs using topological methods; the general case remains open.

References

Primary source

Pavle V. M. Blagojević, Wolfgang Lück and Günter M. Ziegler, “Equivariant Topology of Configuration Spaces”, arXiv:1207.2852 (2014).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1202.5504.

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