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A linearly constrained framework in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a bar-joint framework where, in addition, vertices with loops are constrained to lie in given affine subspaces. In the generic case, when each vertex is incident to sufficiently many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Zakir Deniz , Hakan Guler , Anthony Nixon

A result due in its various parts to Hendrickson, Connelly, and Jackson and Jord\'an, provides a purely combinatorial characterisation of global rigidity for generic bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The analogous conditions are known…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-12 Bill Jackson , Thomas McCourt , Anthony Nixon

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…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Derek Kitson , Anthony Nixon , Bernd Schulze

We give a combinatorial characterization of generic minimally rigid reflection frameworks. The main new idea is to study a pair of direction networks on the same graph such that one admits faithful realizations and the other has only…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran

We extend our generic rigidity theory for periodic frameworks in the plane to frameworks with a broader class of crystallographic symmetry. Along the way we introduce a new class of combinatorial matroids and associated linear…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran

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

A rigidity theory is developed for frameworks in a metric space with two types of distance constraints. Mixed sparsity graph characterisations are obtained for the infinitesimal and continuous rigidity of completely regular bar-joint…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Anthony Nixon , Stephen Power

A theorem of Laman gives a combinatorial characterisation of the graphs that admit a realisation as a minimally rigid generic bar-joint framework in $\bR^2$. A more general theory is developed for frameworks in $\bR^3$ whose vertices are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-05 A. Nixon , J. C. Owen , S. C. Power

We develop a rigidity theory for bar-joint frameworks in Euclidean $d$-space in which specified classes of edges are allowed to change length in a coordinated fashion that requires differences of lengths to be preserved within each class.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Bernd Schulze , Hattie Serocold , Louis Theran

A framework (a straight-line embedding of a graph into a normed space allowing edges to cross) is globally rigid if any other framework with the same edge lengths with respect to the chosen norm is an isometric copy. We investigate global…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Sean Dewar

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

This paper studies local rigidity for some isometric toral extensions of partially hyperbolic $\mathbb{Z}^k$ ($k\geqslant 2$) actions on the torus. We prove a $C^\infty$ local rigidity result for such actions, provided that the smooth…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Qinbo Chen , Danijela Damjanović

We consider the global rigidity problem for bar-joint frameworks where each vertex is constrained to lie on a particular line in $\mathbb R^d$. In our setting we allow multiple vertices to be constrained to the same line. Under a mild…

We show that a generic framework $(G,p)$ on the cylinder is globally rigid if and only if $G$ is a complete graph on at most four vertices or $G$ is both redundantly rigid and $2$-connected. To prove the theorem we also derive a new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Bill Jackson , Anthony Nixon

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

In computational models of particle packings with periodic boundary conditions, it is assumed that the packing is attached to exact copies of itself in all possible directions. The periodicity of the boundary then requires that all of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-07 R. Cameron Dennis , Varda F. Hagh , Eric I. Corwin

Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ nodes. In this note, we prove that if $G$ is $(r+1)$-vertex connected, $1 \leq r \leq n-2$, then there exists a configuration $p$ in general position in $R^r$ such that the bar framework $(G,p)$ is universally…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-18 A. Y. Alfakih

We consider the rigidity and global rigidity of bar-joint frameworks in Euclidean $d$-space under additional dilation constraints in specified coordinate directions. In this setting we obtain a complete characterisation of generic rigidity.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Sean Dewar , Anthony Nixon , Andrew Sainsbury

A bar framework determined by a finite graph $G$ and configuration $\bf p$ in $d$ space is universally rigid if it is rigid in any ${\mathbb R}^D \supset {\mathbb R}^d$. We provide a characterization of universally rigidity for any graph…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Robert Connelly , Steven Gortler

We show that under certain boundedness condition, a $C^{r}$ conservative irrational pseudo-rotations on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with a generic rotation vector is $C^{r-1}$-rigid. We also obtain $C^0$-rigidity for H\"older pseudo-rotations with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Jian Wang , Zhiyuan Zhang