Convex Equipartitions of volume and surface area

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2010-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/1010.4611v3

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Metric Geometry

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We show that, for any prime power p^k and any convex body K (i.e., a compact convex set with interior) in Rd, there exists a partition of K into p^k convex sets with equal volume and equal surface area. We derive this result from a more general one for absolutely continuous measures and continuous functionals on the space of convex bodies. This result was independently found by Roman Karasev generalizing work of Gromov and Memarian who proved it for the standard measure on the sphere and p=2. Our proof uses basics from the theory of optimal transport and equivariant topology. The topological ingredient is a Borsuk-Ulam type statement on configuration space with the standard action of the symmetric group. This result was discovered in increasing generality by Fuks, Vaseliev and Karasev. We include a detailed proof and discuss how it relates to Gromov's proof for the case p=2.

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