Flexibility and rigidity of frameworks consisting of triangles and parallelograms

DOI10.1016/J.COMGEO.2023.102055MaRDI QIDQ6435071zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Georg Grasegger, Jan Legerský

Publication date 2 May 2023

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comgeo.2023.102055

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.) (05C76) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: A framework, which is a (possibly infinite) graph with a realization of its vertices in the plane, is called flexible if it can be continuously deformed while preserving the edge lengths. We focus on flexibility of frameworks in which 4-cycles form parallelograms. For the class of frameworks considered in this paper (allowing triangles), we prove that the following are equivalent: flexibility, infinitesimal flexibility, the existence of at least two classes of an equivalence relation based on 3- and 4-cycles and being a non-trivial subgraph of the Cartesian product of graphs. We study the algorithmic aspects and the rotationally symmetric version of the problem. The results are illustrated on frameworks obtained from tessellations by regular polygons.

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