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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

A minimally rigid graph, also called Laman graph, models a planar framework which is rigid for a general choice of distances between its vertices. In other words, there are finitely many ways, up to isometries, to realize such a graph in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Christoph Koutschan

Laman graphs model planar frameworks that are rigid for a general choice of distances between the vertices. There are finitely many ways, up to isometries, to realize a Laman graph in the plane. Such realizations can be seen as solutions of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Jose Capco , Matteo Gallet , Georg Grasegger , Christoph Koutschan , Niels Lubbes , Josef Schicho

Determining the number of (complex) realisations of a rigid graph for a specific choice of edge lengths is a fundamental problem in discrete geometry. In this article we provide two new tools for determining realisation numbers in arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Sean Dewar , Anthony Nixon , Ben Smith

A Laman graph $G$ is a minimally rigid graph in dimension two, and its realization number is its number of distinct embeddings with fixed generic edge lengths. While conjectured to grow exponentially in the number of vertices of $G$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Amelia Bielby , Arushi Chauhan , Cassia Pearce , Yue Ren

Laman graphs model planar frameworks which are rigid for a general choice of distances between the vertices. There are finitely many ways, up to isometries, to realize a Laman graph in the plane. In a recent paper we provide a recursion…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Jose Capco , Matteo Gallet , Georg Grasegger , Christoph Koutschan , Niels Lubbes , Josef Schicho

A $d$-dimensional (bar-and-joint) framework $(G,p)$ consists of a graph $G=(V,E)$ and a realisation $p:V\to \mathbb{R}^d$. It is rigid if every continuous motion of the vertices which preserves the lengths of the edges is induced by an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-08-19 James Cruickshank , Bill Jackson , Tibor Jordán , Shin-ichi Tanigawa

Given a rigid realisation of a graph $G$ in ${\mathbb R}^2$, it is an open problem to determine the maximum number of pairwise non-congruent realisations which have the same edge lengths as the given realisation. This problem can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Bill Jackson , J. C. Owen

A graph is $d$-rigid if for any generic realisation of the graph in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (equivalently, the $d$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$), there are only finitely many non-congruent realisations in the same space with the same edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Sean Dewar , Georg Grasegger

Rigid graphs have only finitely many realizations. In the recent years significant progress was made in computing the number of such realizations. With this progress it was also possible for the first time to do computations on large sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Georg Grasegger

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

In structural rigidity, one studies frameworks of bars and joints in Euclidean space. Such a framework is an articulated structure consisting of rigid bars, joined together at joints around which the bars may rotate. In this paper, we will…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Joannes Vermant , Klara Stokes

Rigidity theory studies the properties of graphs that can have rigid embeddings in a euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ or on a sphere and which in addition satisfy certain edge length constraints. One of the major open problems in this field…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Evangelos Bartzos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Jan Legerský , Elias Tsigaridas

We present a generic construction of finite realisations of amalgamation patterns. An amalgamation pattern is specified by a finite collection of finite template structures together with a collection of partial isomorphisms between them. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Martin Otto

Computing the number of realizations of a minimally rigid graph is a notoriously difficult problem. Towards this goal, for graphs that are minimally rigid in the plane, we take advantage of a recently published algorithm, which is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Georg Grasegger , Christoph Koutschan , Elias Tsigaridas

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 investigate the tree gonality of a genus-$g$ metric graph, defined as the minimum degree of a tropical morphism from any tropical modification of the metric graph to a metric tree. We give a combinatorial constructive proof that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Jan Draisma , Alejandro Vargas

We introduce a recursive procedure for computing the number of realizations of a minimally rigid graph on the sphere up to rotations. We accomplish this by combining two ingredients. The first is a framework that allows us to think of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Matteo Gallet , Georg Grasegger , Niels Lubbes , Josef Schicho

A graph profile records all possible densities of a fixed finite set of graphs. Profiles can be extremely complicated; for instance the full profile of any triple of connected graphs is not known, and little is known about hypergraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Grigoriy Blekherman , Annie Raymond , Mohit Singh , Rekha R. Thomas

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
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