Nonexistence of a quadrisection of the six-dimensional torus by subcube partitions

Let T6=(R/4Z)6=[0,4]6/T^6=(\mathbb{R}/4\mathbb{Z})^6=[0,4]^6/\sim, and partition its 464^6 subcubes into four classes. Nonexistence conjecture. No partition of the subcubes of [0,4]6/[0,4]^6/\sim gives a quadrisection of T6T^6. The paper explains that the symmetric construction used in odd dimensions fails because 44 and 66 are not relatively prime. It suggests that a less symmetric partition might exist but reports that trial and error indicates this is unlikely; no proof of nonexistence is given.

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Thomas Kindred, “Efficient multisections of odd-dimensional tori”, arXiv:2010.14911 (2022).

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