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A convex quadrangular pyramid $ABCDE$, where $ABCD$ is the base and $E$ -- the apex, is called \emph{strongly flexible}, if it belongs to a continuous family of pairwise non-congruent quadrangular pyramids that have the same lengths of…
A one-parameter deformation of a periodic bar-and-joint framework is expansive when all distances between joints increase or stay the same. In dimension two, expansive behavior can be fully explained through our theory of periodic…
We give a linear upper bound on the number of distinct volume-equivalent frameworks of bipyramids, up to rigid motions. As a corollary, we show that global volume rigidity is not a generic property of simplicial complexes.
A linearly constrained framework in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a point configuration together with a system of constraints which fixes the distances between some pairs of points and additionally restricts some of the points to lie in given affine…
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…
For Hardy spaces and weighted Bergman spaces on the open unit ball in ${\mathbb C}^n$, we determine exactly when $A^p_\alpha\subset H^q$ or $H^p\subset A^q_\alpha$, where $0<q<\infty$, $0<p<\infty$, and $-\infty<\alpha<\infty$. For each…
A locally compact group $G$ is a cocompact envelope of a group $\Gamma$ if $G$ contains a copy of $\Gamma$ as a discrete and cocompact subgroup. We study the problem that takes two finitely generated groups $\Gamma,\Lambda$ having a common…
We study the structure of the spectrum of the algebra of uniformly continuous holomorphic functions on the unit ball of $\ell_p$. Our main focus is the relationship between \emph{Gleason parts} and \emph{fibers}. For every $z \in…
A framework is a graph and a map from its vertices to E^d (for some d). A framework is universally rigid if any framework in any dimension with the same graph and edge lengths is a Euclidean image of it. We show that a generic universally…
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…
A planar framework -- a graph together with a map of its vertices to the plane -- is flexible if it allows a continuous deformation preserving the distances between adjacent vertices. Extending a recent previous result, we prove that a…
A configuration p in r-dimensional Euclidean space is a finite collection of labeled points p^1,p^2,...,p^n in R^r that affinely span R^r. Each configuration p defines a Euclidean distance matrix D_p = (d_ij) = (||p^i-p^j||^2), where ||.||…
We investigate a novel setting for polytope rigidity, where a flex must preserve edge lengths and the planarity of faces, but is allowed to change the shapes of faces. For instance, the regular cube is flexible in this notion. We present…
Gels of semi-flexible polymers, network glasses made of low valence elements, softly compressed ellipses and dense suspensions under flow are examples of floppy materials. These systems present collective motions with almost no restoring…
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…
We explore the rigidity of generic frameworks in 3-dimensions whose underlying graph is close to being planar. Specifically we consider apex graphs, edge-apex graphs and their variants and prove independence results in the generic…
A dilatation structure on a metric space, arXiv:math/0608536v4, is a notion in between a group and a differential structure, accounting for the approximate self-similarity of the metric space. The basic objects of a dilatation structure are…
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…
In this paper the weak fixed point property ($w$-FPP) and the fixed point property (FPP) in Variable Lebesgue Spaces are studied. Given $(\Omega,\Sigma,\mu)$ a $\sigma$-finite measure and $p(\cdot)$ a variable exponent function, the $w$-FPP…
We say that a function $f:[0,1]\rightarrow \R$ is \emph{nowhere $L^q$} if, for each nonvoid open subset $U$ of $[0,1]$, the restriction $f|_U$ is not in $L^q(U)$. For a fixed $1 \leq p <\infty$, we will show that the set $$ S_p\doteq {f \in…