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A novel approach to the fair division problem is proposed, which is based on the concept of a priori estimates and ideas of dynamical systems theory. For several problems on the division of a resource with discrete components, this approach leads to explicit constructive solutions in cases for which even the existence of solutions has not been previously known.
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Original Russian Text © M.L. Blank, 2016, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2016, Vol. 471, No. 6, pp. 635–639.
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Blank, M.L. How to divide the indivisible. Dokl. Math. 94, 688–691 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064562416060272
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