English

Flexing infinite frameworks with applications to braced Penrose tilings

Combinatorics 2022-10-06 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

A planar framework -- a graph together with a map of its vertices to the plane -- is flexible if it allows a continuous deformation preserving the distances between adjacent vertices. Extending a recent previous result, we prove that a connected graph with a countable vertex set can be realized as a flexible framework if and only if it has a so-called NAC-coloring. The tools developed to prove this result are then applied to frameworks where every 4-cycle is a parallelogram, and countably infinite graphs with nn-fold rotational symmetry. With this, we determine a simple combinatorial characterization that determines whether the 1-skeleton of a Penrose rhombus tiling with a given set of braced rhombi will have a flexible motion, and also whether the motion will preserve 5-fold rotational symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2110.01854,
  title  = {Flexing infinite frameworks with applications to braced Penrose tilings},
  author = {Sean Dewar and Jan Legerský},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01854},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages, 11 figures

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