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Most Convex Bodies are Isometrically Indivisible

Christian Richter
- 22 Sep 2008 - 
- Vol. 89, Iss: 1, pp 130-137
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A set C in the Euclidean space is called isometrically m-divisible if there exists a disjoint decomposition of C into m subsets Ci pairwise congruent with respect to the group of isometries as discussed by the authors.
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A set C in the Euclidean space \({\mathbb{R}}^d\) is called isometrically m-divisible if there exists a disjoint decomposition of C into m subsets Ci pairwise congruent with respect to the group of Euclidean isometries. We present a necessary condition for the isometric m-divisibility, which shows in particular that most convex bodies – in the sense of Baire category – are not isometrically m-divisible for any choice of m\(m \in \{2, 3, \ldots, \aleph_0 \}\).

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Partitioning Intervals, Spheres and Balls into Congruent Pieces

TL;DR: A survey of results on partitioning some common sets into m congruent pieces can be found in this article, where it is shown that a ball in R n cannot be partitioned if 2 ≤ m ≤ n.
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Partitioning an Interval Into Finitely Many Congruent Parts

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that if a non-pivotal interval can be partitioned into n parts, then it can also be divided into n sub-intervals, which are disjoint and congruent by pairs.
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Indivisibility of balls in Euclidean n-space

TL;DR: An open or closed ball in Euclidean n -space cannot be partitioned into k pairwise congruent sets if 2⩽ k ⩽ n as mentioned in this paper.