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Solution of Peter Winkler's Pizza Problem

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2009

Abstract

Bob cuts a pizza into slices of not necessarily equal size and shares it with Alice by alternately taking turns. One slice is taken in each turn.

The first turn is Alice's. She may choose any of the slices.

In all other turns only those slices can be chosen that have a neighbor slice already eaten. We prove a conjecture of Peter Winkler by showing that Alice has a strategy for obtaining 4/9 of the pizza.