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Rigidity is the property of a structure that does not flex. It is well studied in discrete geometry and mechanics, and has applications in material science, engineering and biological sciences. A bar-and-joint framework is a pair $(G,p)$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Sean Dewar , Xiaofeng Gu

Whiteley \cite{wh} gives a complete characterization of the infinitesimal flexes of complete bipartite frameworks. Our work generalizes a specific infinitesimal flex to include joined graphs, a family of graphs that contain the complete…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Timothy Sun , Chun Ye

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

A 2-dimensional framework is a straight line realisation of a graph in the Euclidean plane. It is radically solvable if the set of vertex coordinates is contained in a radical extension of the field of rationals extended by the squared edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-09 Bill Jackson , J. C. Owen

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

A number of recent papers have studied when symmetry causes frameworks on a graph to become infinitesimally flexible, or stressed, and when it has no impact. A number of other recent papers have studied special classes of frameworks on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-07 Bernd Schulze , Walter Whiteley

We construct infinite periodic versions of the stress matrix and establish sufficient conditions for periodic tensegrity frameworks to be globally rigid in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in the cases when the lattice is either fixed, fully flexible, or…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Sean Dewar , Bernd Schulze , Shin-ichi Tanigawa , Louis Theran

A natural problem in combinatorial rigidity theory concerns the determination of the rigidity or flexibility of bar-joint frameworks in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that admit some non-trivial symmetry. When $d=2$ there is a large literature on this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Sean Dewar , Georg Grasegger , Eleftherios Kastis , Anthony Nixon

This note gives a detailed proof of the following statement. Let $d\in \mathbb{N}$ and $m,n \ge d + 1$, with $m + n \ge \binom{d+2}{2} + 1$. Then the complete bipartite graph $K_{m,n}$ is generically globally rigid in dimension $d$.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Robert Connelly , Steven J. Gortler , Louis Theran

We prove that if a framework of a graph is neighborhood affine rigid in $d$-dimensions (or has the stronger property of having an equilibrium stress matrix of rank $n-d-1$) then it has an affine flex (an affine, but non Euclidean, transform…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Robert Connelly , Steven J. Gortler , Louis Theran

A recent result of Cioab\u{a}, Dewar and Gu implies that any $k$-regular Ramanujan graph with $k\geq 8$ is globally rigid in $\mathbb{R}^2$. In this paper, we extend these results and prove that any $k$-regular Ramanujan graph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Sean Dewar , Georg Grasegger , Xiaofeng Gu

We review some recent results in the generic rigidity theory of planar frameworks with forced symmetry, giving a uniform treatment to the topic. We also give new combinatorial characterizations of minimally rigid periodic frameworks with…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Justin Malestein , Louis Theran

A graph is said to be rigid if, given a generic realisation of the graph as a bar-and-joint framework in the plane, there exist only finitely many other realisations of the graph with the same edge lengths modulo rotations, reflections and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Sean Dewar , Georg Grasegger , Josef Schicho , Ayush Kumar Tewari , Audie Warren

Graph rigidity, the study of vertex realizations in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and the motions that preserve the induced edge lengths, has been the focus of extensive research for decades. Its equivalency to graph connectivity for $d=1$ is well known;…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Juan F. Presenza , Ignacio Mas , Juan I. Giribet , J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin

Given a graph $G$ and a mapping $p : V(G) \to \mathbb{R}^d$, we say that the pair $(G,p)$ is a ($d$-dimensional) realization of $G$. Two realizations $(G,p)$ and $(G,q)$ are equivalent if each of the point pairs corresponding to the edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Dániel Garamvölgyi

We define periodic frameworks as graphs on the torus, using the language of gain graphs. We present some fundamental definitions and results about the infinitesimal rigidity of graphs on a torus of fixed size and shape, and find necessary…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Elissa Ross

Here it is shown how to combine two generically globally rigid bar frameworks in $d$-space to get another generically globally rigid framework. The construction is to identify $d+1$ vertices from each of the frameworks and erase one of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-31 Robert Connelly

In 2005, Bob Connelly showed that a generic framework in $\bR^d$ is globally rigid if it has a stress matrix of maximum possible rank, and that this sufficient condition for generic global rigidity is preserved by the 1-extension operation.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Bill Jackson , Anthony Nixon

The theory of graph limits represents large graphs by analytic objects called graphons. Graph limits determined by finitely many graph densities, which are represented by finitely forcible graphons, arise in various scenarios, particularly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Jacob W. Cooper , Daniel Kral , Taisa L. Martins

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