| Abstract: | We prove the following theorem. Let m and n be any positive integers with m n, and let
be a subset of the n-dimensional Euclidean space 
n
. For each i=1, . . . , m, there is a class
of subsets M
i
j
of
Tn
. Assume that
for each i=1, . . . , m, that M
i
j
is nonempty and closed for all i, j, and that there exists a real number B(i, j) such that
and its jth component
xjB(i, j)
imply
. Then, there exists a partition
of {1, . . . , n} such that
for all i and
We prove this theorem based upon a generalization of a well-known theorem of Birkhoff and von Neumann. Moreover, we apply this theorem to the fair allocation problem of indivisible objects with money and obtain an existence theorem. |
