Everyone Wants the Contact

Fair Division of a Shared Drill Core among the Disciplines That Sample It

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions treats the working half of a drill core as a fair division problem among the disciplines that sample it. Replaying one core shed's request ledger across eleven holes and six disciplines, it finds conflict confined to 151 of 4,870 marked billets, nearly all at logged contacts, shows that a round-robin draft bounds envy at a single billet where the shed's first-come rule does not, and reports that 64 of the 220 unmet claims could have been served by sequencing rather than division.

@misc{slop_12gaps,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Vigdis Emenike and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Everyone Wants the Contact: Fair Division of a Shared Drill Core among the Disciplines That Sample It},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.12gaps},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-fair-division-of-12gaps/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}