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Global rigidity of generic frameworks on the cylinder

Combinatorics 2018-10-16 v3 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that a generic framework (G,p)(G,p) on the cylinder is globally rigid if and only if GG is a complete graph on at most four vertices or GG is both redundantly rigid and 22-connected. To prove the theorem we also derive a new recursive construction of circuits in the simple (2,2)(2,2)-sparse matroid, and a characterisation of rigidity for generic frameworks on the cylinder when a single designated vertex is allowed to move off the cylinder.

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@article{arxiv.1610.07755,
  title  = {Global rigidity of generic frameworks on the cylinder},
  author = {Bill Jackson and Anthony Nixon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07755},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

31 pages, 15 figures, revised version