Muffin problem one-third lower-bound conjecture

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Let f(m,s)f(m,s) be the largest possible size of the smallest assigned muffin piece, where mm is the number of muffins and ss the number of students.

One-third lower-bound conjecture. For all m>s≥2m>s\geq 2,

f(m,s)≥1/3.f(m,s)\geq 1/3.

The conjecture is solved: the paper states that Cui et al. (2018) proved it, and gives a simpler proof.

References

Primary source

Richard E. Chatwin, “An Optimal Solution for the Muffin Problem”, arXiv:1907.08726 (2020).

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