Generalized Nandakumar–Ramana Rao conjecture for convex bodies and measures

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Let KK be a convex body in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, let μ\mu be an absolutely continuous probability measure on Rd\mathbb{R}^d, let n>1n>1 be a natural number, and let φ1,…,φn−1 ⁣:Conv⁡(Rd)→R\varphi_1,\ldots,\varphi_{n-1}\colon\operatorname{Conv}(\mathbb{R}^d)\to\mathbb{R} be continuous functions. A partition of Rd\mathbb{R}^d into nn convex pieces is a collection of convex pieces P1,…,PnP_1,\ldots,P_n whose union is Rd\mathbb{R}^d. Generalized Nandakumar–Ramana Rao conjecture. There exists such a partition satisfying

μ(P1∩K)=⋯=μ(Pn∩K)\mu(P_1\cap K)=\cdots=\mu(P_n\cap K)

and, for every i∈{1,…,n−1}i\in\{1,\ldots,n-1\},

φi(P1∩K)=⋯=φi(Pn∩K).\varphi_i(P_1\cap K)=\cdots=\varphi_i(P_n\cap K).

This extends the planar area-and-perimeter problem to arbitrary dimension, absolutely continuous measures, and arbitrary continuous functionals; the source gives the planar cases n=2n=2 and n=3n=3 as resolved, while the generalized assertion is not resolved there.

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

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