Muffin problem one-third lower-bound conjecture
Let be the largest possible size of the smallest assigned muffin piece, where is the number of muffins and the number of students.
One-third lower-bound conjecture. For all ,
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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