Cake-cutting with different entitlements: How many cuts are needed?

Erel Segal-Halevi

doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2019.123382

Cake-cutting with different entitlements: How many cuts are needed?

Erel Segal-Halevi

Ariel University

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Abstract

A cake has to be divided fairly among n agents. When all agents have equal entitlements, it is known that such a division can be implemented with n−1 cuts. When agents may have different entitlements, the paper shows that at least 2n−2 cuts may be necessary, and O(nlog⁡n) cuts are always sufficient.

Original language	English
Article number	123382
Journal	Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Volume	480
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2019.123382
State	Published - 1 Dec 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Asymmetric agents
Connected components
Fair cake-cutting
Land division
Unequal shares

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