An Ω(n n) Randomized Lower Bound for Cutting a Cake into Proportionally Fair Pieces

Abstract

We consider the classic cake cutting problem in the Robertson-Webb model, with the objective of proportional fairness. We show that any randomized algorithm must use Ω(n n) queries.

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