Langerman's chessboard mass partition conjecture

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Let n,dn,d be positive integers. Given a finite family of ndnd absolutely continuous measures in \mathdsRd\mathds{R}^d, a set of nn affine hyperplanes induces a chessboard coloring: each measure is divided according to the parity of the number of chosen positive half-spaces containing a point.

Langerman's conjecture. For every such family of measures, there exists a set of nn hyperplanes whose induced chessboard coloring splits every measure into two equal parts.

This conjecture removes directional restrictions imposed in earlier results on chessboard colorings by hyperplane arrangements. The source notes that the case d=n=2d=n=2 was proved by Barba, Pilz, and Schnider, while the general statement remains unresolved.

References

Primary source

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

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