A moving-knife solution to the four-person envy-free cake-division problem

Beams Steven J; Alan D. Taylor; William S. Zwicker

A moving-knife solution to the four-person envy-free cake-division problem

Beams Steven J, Alan D. Taylor, William S. Zwicker

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Abstract

We present a moving-knife procedure, requiring only 11 cuts, that produces an envy-free allocation of a cake among four players and discuss possible extensions to five players.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	547-554
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Volume	125
Issue number	2
State	Published - 1997

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Applied Mathematics

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