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We study all the ways that a given convex body in d dimensions can break into countably many pieces that move away from each other rigidly at constant velocity, with no rotation or shearing. The initial velocity field is locally constant a.e., but may be continuous and/or fail to be integrable. For any choice of mass-velocity pairs for the pieces, such a motion can be generated by the gradient of a convex potential that is affine on each piece. We classify such potentials in terms of a countable version of a theorem of Alexandrov for convex polytopes, and prove a stability theorem. For bounded velocities, there is a bijection between the mass-velocity data and optimal transport flows (Wasserstein geodesics) that are locally incompressible. Given any rigidly breaking velocity field that is the gradient of a continuous potential, the convexity of the potential is established under any of several conditions, such as the velocity field being continuous, the potential being semiconvex, the mass measure generated by a convexified transport potential being absolutely continuous, or there being a finite number of pieces. Also we describe a number of curious and paradoxical examples having fractal structure. 

In this paper we derive the best constant for the following $L^{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$-type Gagliardo-Nirenberg interpolation inequality $\Vert <\#comment/>u{\Vert <\#comment/>}_{L^{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}}\le <\#comment/>C_{q,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>},p}\Vert <\#comment/>u{\Vert <\#comment/>}_{L^{q+1}}^{1-<\#comment/>\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}}\Vert <\#comment/>\mathrm{\nabla <\#comment/>}u{\Vert <\#comment/>}_{L^p}^{\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}},\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}=\frac{pd}{dp+(p-<\#comment/>d)(q+1)},$where parameters $q$and $p$satisfy the conditions $p>d\ge <\#comment/>1$, $q\ge <\#comment/>0$. The best constant $C_{q,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>},p}$is given by $C_{q,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>},p}={\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>\frac{\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}}{p}}(1-<\#comment/>\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}{)}^{\frac{\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}}{p}}{M}_c^{-<\#comment/>\frac{\mathrm{\theta <\#comment/>}}{d}},M_c≔{\int <\#comment/>}_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{u}_{c,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}^{q+1}dx,$where $u_{c,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$is the unique radial non-increasing solution to a generalized Lane-Emden equation. The case of equality holds when $u=A{u}_{c,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}\left(\mathrm{\lambda <\#comment/>}\right(x-<\#comment/>x_0\left)\right)$for any real numbers $A$, $\mathrm{\lambda <\#comment/>}>0$and $x_0\in <\#comment/>{\mathbb{R}}^d$. In fact, the generalized Lane-Emden equation in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$contains a delta function as a source and it is a Thomas-Fermi type equation. For $q=0$or $d=1$, $u_{c,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$have closed form solutions expressed in terms of the incomplete Beta functions. Moreover, we show that $u_{c,m}\to <\#comment/>u_{c,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$and $C_{q,m,p}\to <\#comment/>C_{q,\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>},p}$as $m\to <\#comment/>+\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$for $d=1$, where $u_{c,m}$and $C_{q,m,p}$are the function achieving equality and the best constant of $L^m$-type Gagliardo-Nirenberg interpolation inequality, respectively.