Invariant-theoretic methods in scene analysis and structural mechanics

DOI10.1016/S0747-7171(08)80118-6MaRDI QIDQ1176390zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henry Crapo

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0747-7171(08)80118-6

zbMATH Keywords

invariant theoryscene analysisstructural mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Composite and mixture properties (74E30)

Review text

This article is an introduction and invitation to two domains of applications of invariant theory: the analysis of polyhedral scenes and the mechanics of bar-and-joint structures. The author discusses several examples and points to some unsolved problems.

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