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Rigidity of symmetric frameworks in normed spaces

Metric Geometry 2020-04-17 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We develop a combinatorial rigidity theory for symmetric bar-joint frameworks in a general finite dimensional normed space. In the case of rotational symmetry, matroidal Maxwell-type sparsity counts are identified for a large class of dd-dimensional normed spaces (including all p\ell^p spaces with p2p\not=2). Complete combinatorial characterisations are obtained for half-turn rotation in the 1\ell^1 and \ell^\infty-plane. As a key tool, a new Henneberg-type inductive construction is developed for the matroidal class of (2,2,0)(2,2,0)-gain-tight graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1808.04484,
  title  = {Rigidity of symmetric frameworks in normed spaces},
  author = {Derek Kitson and Anthony Nixon and Bernd Schulze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04484},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

42 pages, 11 figures. This version contains corrected proofs and more detailed explanations have been provided for greater clarity

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