Soberón–Takahashi conjecture on bisection by parallel hyperplanes

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Let dd and kk be positive integers. A finite absolutely continuous measure on Rd\mathbb{R}^d is given for each of d+k−1d+k-1 measures.

Soberón–Takahashi conjecture. Any d+k−1d+k-1 finite absolutely continuous measures on Rd\mathbb{R}^d can be simultaneously bisected by the chessboard coloring induced by kk or fewer parallel hyperplanes.

This conjecture concerns simultaneous mass bisection by parallel hyperplanes and generalizes the ham sandwich theorem. The case k=2k=2 has been proved by Soberón and Takahashi and later by Blagojević and Crabb; the general conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Nikola Sadovek and Pablo Soberón, “Bisections of mass assignments by parallel hyperplanes”, arXiv:2412.04058 (2025).

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