Barba's Ham-Sandwich line conjecture

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Let RR, BB, and GG be sets of lines in R3\mathbb{R}^3 in general position, each containing an even number of lines. For two lines in general position, say that one lies above the other when the unique vertical line intersecting both visits the first and then the second when traversed from top to bottom. Barba's conjecture. There is a line ℓ\ell in R3\mathbb{R}^3 that lies below exactly ∣R∣/2|R|/2 lines of RR, ∣B∣/2|B|/2 lines of BB, and ∣G∣/2|G|/2 lines of GG; equivalently, a Ham-Sandwich line simultaneously bisects the three sets with respect to the above-below relation. This is the line-arrangement analogue of the Ham-Sandwich theorem and motivates the paper's generalization to mass assignments on subspaces. The supplied text gives no resolution status.

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Patrick Schnider, “Ham-Sandwich cuts and center transversals in subspaces”, arXiv:1903.12516 (2019).

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