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We show that universal rigidity of a generic bar and joint framework (G,p) in the line depends on more than the ordering of the vertices. In particular, we construct examples of one-dimensional generic frameworks with the same graph and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Bryan Chen , Robert Connelly , Anthony Nixon , Louis Theran

We present necessary and sufficient conditions for the generic rigidity of body-bar frameworks on the three-dimensional fixed torus. These frameworks correspond to infinite periodic body-bar frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with a fixed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Elissa Ross

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 investigate how to find generic and globally rigid realizations of graphs in $\mathbb{R}^d$ based on elementary geometric observations. Our arguments lead to new proofs of a combinatorial characterization of the global rigidity of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Shin-ichi Tanigawa

In "Universal rigidity on the line, point orde" it is shown, answering a question of Jord\'an and Nguyen, that universal rigidity of a generic bar-joint framework in R^1 depends on more than the ordering of the vertices. The graph G that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Bryan Chen , Robert Connelly , Steven J. Gortler , Anthony Nixon , Louis Theran

We give a combinatorial characterization of generic frameworks that are minimally rigid under the additional constraint of maintaining symmetry with respect to a finite order rotation or a reflection. To establish these results we develop a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran

Symmetry equations are obtained for the rigidity matrix of a bar-joint framework in R^d. These form the basis for a short proof of the Fowler-Guest symmetry group generalisation of the Calladine-Maxwell counting rules. Similar symmetry…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-23 J. C. Owen , S. C. Power

We propose new symmetry-adapted rigidity matrices to analyze the infinitesimal rigidity of arbitrary-dimensional bar-joint frameworks with Abelian point group symmetries. These matrices define new symmetry-adapted rigidity matroids on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Bernd Schulze , Shin-ichi Tanigawa

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

We give a combinatorial characterization of generic minimal rigidity for planar periodic frameworks. The characterization is a true analogue of the Maxwell-Laman Theorem from rigidity theory: it is stated in terms of a finite combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran

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

The combinatorial characterization of generic rigidity for bar-joint frameworks in dimensions $d \ge 3$ has been a long-standing open problem in discrete geometry. While the two-dimensional case was resolved in 1927 by Pollaczek-Geiringer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Alexander Heaton

We consider the problem of characterising the generic rigidity of bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in which each vertex is constrained to lie in a given affine subspace. The special case when $d=2$ was previously solved by I. Streinu…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-09 James Cruickshank , Hakan Guler , Bill Jackson , Anthony Nixon

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

We consider the problem of characterising the generic rigidity of bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in which each vertex is constrained to lie in a given affine subspace. The special case when $d=2$ was previously solved by I. Streinu…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Bill Jackson , Anthony Nixon , Shin-Ichi Tanigawa

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

A bar-joint framework $(G,p)$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^d$ is globally rigid if it is the unique realisation, up to rigid congruences, of $G$ in $\mathbb{E}^d$ with the edge lengths of $(G,p)$. Building on key results of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Sean Dewar , John Hewetson , Anthony Nixon

We show that any graph that is generically globally rigid in $\mathbb{R}^d$ has a realization in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that is both generic and universally rigid. This also implies that the graph also must have a realization in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Robert Connelly , Steven J. Gortler , Louis Theran

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