Langerman's conjecture on bisection by hyperplanes

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Let a mass distribution in Rd\mathbb{R}^d be a measure for which the bisection notion is defined. A set of nn hyperplanes bisects a mass distribution when, after orienting the hyperplanes, the two checkerboard regions determined by the parity of the number of positive sides have equal mass. Langerman's conjecture. Any dndn mass distributions in Rd\mathbb{R}^d can be simultaneously bisected by nn hyperplanes. This generalizes the Ham-Sandwich theorem to several hyperplane cuts and the checkerboard bisection induced by their arrangement. The conjecture has been proved for several values of nn and dd, but remains open in full generality.

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

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