How to share a cake with a secret agent

10/16/2018

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by   Guillaume Chèze, et al.

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In this note we study a problem of fair division in the absence of full information. We give an algorithm which solves the following problem: n > 2 persons want to cut a cake into n shares so that each person will get at least 1/n of the cake for his or her own measure, furthermore the preferences of one person are secret. How can we construct such shares? Our algorithm is a slight modification of the Even-Paz algorithm and allows to give a connected part to each agent. Moreover, the number of cuts used during the algorithm is optimal: O (n log(n)) .