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Computing the number of realizations of a Laman graph

Combinatorics 2017-10-12 v2 Computational Geometry

Abstract

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 formula for this number of realizations using ideas from algebraic and tropical geometry. Here, we present a concise summary of this result focusing on the main ideas and the combinatorial point of view.

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@article{arxiv.1707.03633,
  title  = {Computing the number of realizations of a Laman graph},
  author = {Jose Capco and Matteo Gallet and Georg Grasegger and Christoph Koutschan and Niels Lubbes and Josef Schicho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.03633},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Extended abstract; the long version is arxiv:1701.05500

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