Ramos's Grünbaum–Hadwiger–Ramos mass partition conjecture

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Let d,k,md,k,m be positive integers. A triple (d,k,m)(d,k,m) is a solution of the Grünbaum–Hadwiger–Ramos mass partition problem if, for any mm absolutely continuous finite measures in \mathdsRd\mathds{R}^d, there exist kk affine hyperplanes dividing \mathdsRd\mathds{R}^d into 2k2^k parts of equal size in each measure.

Ramos's conjecture. The triple (d,k,m)(d,k,m) is a solution if and only if

d≥⌈(2k−1k)m⌉.d \ge \left\lceil \left( \frac{2^k-1}{k}\right)m\right\rceil.

Ramos's dimension condition is necessary by an argument using measures concentrated near the moment curve. The conjecture asks whether this necessary condition is also sufficient; the survey gives no resolution of the general problem.

References

Primary source

Edgardo Roldán-Pensado and Pablo Soberón, “A survey of mass partitions”, arXiv:2010.00478 (2020).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1901.08622, arXiv:1509.02959, arXiv:1502.02975, arXiv:1304.5390.

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