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We study the bar-and-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^2$ such that some vertices are constrained to lie on some lines. The generic rigidity of such frameworks is characterised by Streinu and Theran (2010). Katoh and Tanigawa (2013) remarked…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Hakan Guler

We formulate and prove a periodic analog of Maxwell's theorem relating stressed planar frameworks and their liftings to polyhedral surfaces with spherical topology. We use our lifting theorem to prove deformation and rigidity-theoretic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Ciprian S. Borcea , Ileana Streinu

We investigate linear parabolic maps on the torus. In a generic case these maps are non-invertible and discontinuous. Although the metric entropy of these systems is equal to zero, their dynamics is non-trivial due to folding of the image…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Karol Zyczkowski , Takashi Nishikawa

We develop a rigidity theory for frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which have two coincident points but are otherwise generic and only infinitesimal motions which are tangential to a family of cylinders induced by the realisation are considered.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Bill Jackson , Viktoria Kaszanitzky , Anthony Nixon

We construct minimal surfaces by gluing simply periodic Karcher--Scherk saddle towers along their wings. Such constructions were previously implemented assuming a horizontal reflection plane. We break this symmetry by prescribing phase…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Hao Chen , Martin Traizet

A bar-joint framework $(G,p)$ is the combination of a finite simple graph $G=(V,E)$ and a placement $p:V\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$. The framework is rigid if the only edge-length preserving continuous motions of the vertices arise from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Anthony Nixon , Bernd Schulze , Joseph Wall

We study a parametric family of piecewise rotations of the torus, in the limit in which the rotation number approaches the rational value 1/4. There is a region of positive measure where the discontinuity set becomes dense in the limit; we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-14 John H. Lowenstein , Franco Vivaldi

Tanigawa (2016) showed that vertex-redundant rigidity of a graph implies its global rigidity in arbitrary dimension. We extend this result to periodic graphs under fixed lattice representations. A periodic graph is vertex-redundantly rigid…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Viktoria E. Kaszanitzky , Csaba Kiraly , Bernd Schulze

We give an algebraic characterization of when a $d$-dimensional periodic framework has no non-trivial, symmetry preserving, motion for any choice of periodicity lattice. Our condition is decidable, and we provide a simple algorithm that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran

Combinatorial characterisations of minimal rigidity are obtained for symmetric 2-dimensional bar-joint frameworks with either $\ell^1$ or $\ell^\infty$ distance constraints. The characterisations are expressed in terms of symmetric tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Derek Kitson , Bernd Schulze

We give inductive constructions of independent graphs that contain implied nonedges but do not contain any non-trivial rigid subgraphs, or \emph{nucleations}: some of the constructions and proofs apply to 3-dimensional abstract rigidity…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Jialong Cheng , Meera Sitharam , Ileana Streinu , William Sims

A rigidity theory is developed for bar-joint frameworks in linear matrix spaces endowed with a unitarily invariant norm. Analogues of Maxwell's counting criteria are obtained and minimally rigid matrix frameworks are shown to belong to the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Derek Kitson , Rupert H. Levene

To investigate the topological structure of Morse functions on the projective plane we use the Reeb graphs. We describe it properties and prove that it is a complete topological invariant of simple Morse function on $\mathbb{R} P^2$. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Svitlana Bilun , Alexandr Prishlyak , Serhii Stas , Alina Vlasenko

This paper is the fifth and final in a series on embedded minimal surfaces. Following our earlier papers on disks, we prove here two main structure theorems for non-simply connected embedded minimal surfaces of any given fixed genus. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

A $d$-dimensional (bar-and-joint) framework $(G,p)$ consists of a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a realisation $p:V\to \mathbb{R}^d$. It is rigid if every continuous motion of the vertices which preserves the lengths of the edges is induced by an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-08-19 James Cruickshank , Bill Jackson , Tibor Jordán , Shin-ichi Tanigawa

Work of Glover and Huneke shows that a cubic graph embeds into the real projective plane if and only if it does not contain one of six topological minors called cubic projective plane obstructions. Here we classify up to equivalence the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Marie Kramer

In structural rigidity, one studies frameworks of bars and joints in Euclidean space. Such a framework is an articulated structure consisting of rigid bars, joined together at joints around which the bars may rotate. In this paper, we will…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Joannes Vermant , Klara Stokes

A classical tensegrity model consists of an embedded graph in a vector space with rigid bars representing edges, and an assignment of a stress to every edge such that at every vertex of the graph the stresses sum up to zero. The tensegrity…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Fatemeh Mohammadi , Xian Wu

We extend the mathematical theory of rigidity of frameworks (graphs embedded in $d$-dimensional space) to consider nonlocal rigidity and flexibility properties. We provide conditions on a framework under which (I) as the framework flexes…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Miranda Holmes-Cerfon , Louis Theran , Steven J. Gortler

For plane frameworks with reflection or rotational symmetries, where the group action is not necessarily free on the vertex set, we introduce a phase-symmetric orbit rigidity matrix for each irreducible representation of the group. We then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Alison La Porta , Bernd Schulze