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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 realisation of a graph in the plane as a bar-joint framework is rigid if there are finitely many other realisations, up to isometries, with the same edge lengths. Each of these finitely-many realisations can be seen as a solution to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Oliver Clarke , Sean Dewar , Daniel Green Tripp , James Maxwell , Anthony Nixon , Yue Ren , Ben Smith

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

Determining the number of realisations of a graph for a specific choice of edge lengths is a fundamental problem in discrete geometry. In this article we prove that the $d$-dimensional realisation number of an Erd\H{o}s-Renyi random graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Sean Dewar , Anthony Nixon , Ben Smith

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

A graph is called (generically) rigid in $\mathbb{R}^d$ if, for any choice of sufficiently generic edge lengths, it can be embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in a finite number of distinct ways, modulo rigid transformations. Here we deal with the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Ioannis Psarros

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 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

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

By definition, a rigid graph in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (or on a sphere) has a finite number of embeddings up to rigid motions for a given set of edge length constraints. These embeddings are related to the real solutions of an algebraic system.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Evangelos Bartzos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Raimundas Vidunas

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

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 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

A graph is said to be globally rigid if almost all embeddings of the graph's vertices in the Euclidean plane will define a system of edge-length equations with a unique (up to isometry) solution. In 2007, Jackson, Servatius and Servatius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Sean Dewar
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