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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

Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the infinitesimal rigidity of braced grids in the plane with respect to non-Euclidean norms. Component rectangles of the grid may carry 0, 1 or 2 diagonal braces, and the combinatorial…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Stephen Power

We prove sufficient conditions for the existence of conjugate points along geodesics of a left-invariant metric on a Lie group, using a reformulation of the index form in terms of the adjoint action. In the compact semisimple case, with an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Alice Le Brigant , Leandro Lichtenfelz , Stephen C. Preston

In this paper, we study geometric points in tensor triangular geometry. In doing so, we construct a counter-example to Balmer's Nerves of Steel conjecture using free constructions in higher Zariski geometry. We then go on to introduce and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Tobias Barthel , Logan Hyslop , Maxime Ramzi

Recently, Alfakih and Ye [Lin. Algebra Appl. 438:31--36, 2013] proved that if an $r$-dimensional bar framework $(G,p)$ on $n \geq r+2$ nodes in general position in $\R^r$ admits a positive semidefinite stress matrix with rank $n-r-1$, then…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-28 A. Y. Alfakih , Viet-Hang Nguyen

The Kechris-Pestov-Todorcevic correspondence connects extreme amenability of non-Archimedean Polish groups with Ramsey properties of classes of finite structures. The purpose of the present paper is to recast it as one of the instances of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Lionel Nguyen Van Thé

In this note we give simple symplecticity conditions for implicit schemes in the linear case. We consider implicit maps on generic symplectic manifold and we introduce the concept of consistent implicit maps, to generalize the symplecticity…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Hugo Jiménez-Pérez

We start by introducing the basics of configurations of points and lines, and then move into discussing symmetry groups of these configurations. Specifically, we explore how we might classify the symmetries of $(9_3)$ and $(10_3)$ geometric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Luke Boyer , Nick Payne

A one-to-one correspondence between the infinitesimal motions of bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and those in $\mathbb{S}^d$ is a classical observation by Pogorelov, and further connections among different rigidity models in various…

We discuss the generalized Newton-Cartan geometries that can serve as gravitational background fields for particles and strings. In order to enable us to define affine connections that are invariant under all the symmetries of the structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Eric Bergshoeff , Kevin van Helden , Johannes Lahnsteiner , Luca Romano , Jan Rosseel

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

Framework materials and their deformations provide a compelling relation between materials science and algebraic geometry. Physical distance constraints within the material transform into polynomial constraints, making algebraic geometry…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Matthias Himmelmann , Myfanwy E. Evans

We investigate an algebraic problem related to the determination of the fundamental group of a class of spaces of configurations on surfaces. The configuration spaces are spaces of points grouped into colors. Whether two points are allowed…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Marcel Bökstedt

A bar framework in R^r, denoted by G(p), is a simple connected graph G whose vertices are points p^1,...,p^n in R^r that affinely span R^r, and whose edges are line segments between pairs of these points. In this paper, we use stress…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-18 A. Y. Alfakih

We study reflection-symmetric realisations of symmetric graphs in the plane that allow a continuous symmetry and edge-length preserving deformation. To do so, we identify a necessary combinatorial condition on graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Sean Dewar , Georg Grasegger , Jan Legerský

An $(n_k)$-configuration is a set of $n$ points and $n$ lines in the projective plane such that their point-line incidence graph is $k$-regular. The configuration is geometric, topological, or combinatorial depending on whether lines are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Jürgen Bokowski , Vincent Pilaud

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

A d-dimensional framework is a graph and a map from its vertices to E^d. Such a framework is globally rigid if it is the only framework in E^d with the same graph and edge lengths, up to rigid motions. For which underlying graphs is a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Steven J. Gortler , Alexander D. Healy , Dylan P. Thurston

The aim of this paper is to prove a fixed point theorem on a generalised cone metric spaces for maps satisfying general contractive type conditions.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Sudip Kumar Pal , Manojit Maity

In this paper, the existence of coincidence points and common fixed points for multivalued mappings satisfying certain graphic {\psi}-contraction contractive conditions with set-valued domain endowed with a graph, without appealing to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Sergei Silvestrov , Talat Nazir