Lower bounds on the number of realizations of rigid graphs
Combinatorics
2018-04-12 v2 Computational Geometry
Symbolic Computation
Abstract
Computing the number of realizations of a minimally rigid graph is a notoriously difficult problem. Towards this goal, for graphs that are minimally rigid in the plane, we take advantage of a recently published algorithm, which is the fastest available method, although its complexity is still exponential. Combining computational results with the theory of constructing new rigid graphs by gluing, we give a new lower bound on the maximal possible number of (complex) realizations for graphs with a given number of vertices. We extend these ideas to rigid graphs in three dimensions and we derive similar lower bounds, by exploiting data from extensive Gr\"obner basis computations.
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@article{arxiv.1710.08237,
title = {Lower bounds on the number of realizations of rigid graphs},
author = {Georg Grasegger and Christoph Koutschan and Elias Tsigaridas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.08237},
year = {2018}
}