Epistemic fair division of independence structures (opens in new tab)

We study the problem of fair division of indivisible goods with constraints imposed by a prescribed independence structure, that is, a family of subsets of goods closed under taking subsets. As a motivating example, imagine that the goods to be divided are the available connections in a logistic, financial, or social network. The admissible bundle of goods for each agent must correspond to an acyclic set of edges, corresponding to a basic feas...