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Orientation-Reversing Crystallographic Rigidity

Combinatorics 2025-02-21 v1

Abstract

This paper provides a combinatorial characterisation for generic forced symmetric rigidity of bar-joint frameworks in the Euclidean plane that are symmetric with respect to the orientation-reversing wallpaper group Z2Cs\mathbb{Z}^2\rtimes\mathcal{C}_s, also known as pmpm in crystallography, under a fixed lattice representation. Corresponding results for the wallpaper groups cmcm and pgpg follow directly from this. The method used also provides an inductive construction for the corresponding gain graphs, in terms of Henneberg-type graph operations.

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@article{arxiv.2502.14392,
  title  = {Orientation-Reversing Crystallographic Rigidity},
  author = {Jack Esson and Eleftherios Kastis and Bernd Schulze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.14392},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages

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