Equivalence of continuous, local and infinitesimal rigidity in normed spaces (Q2664105)

The author presents a rigorous study of framework rigidity in general finite dimensional normed spaces from the perspective of Lie group actions on smooth manifolds. The results obtained are used to extend the well-known result by L. Asimow and B. Roth establishing the equivalence of local, continuous and infinitesimal rigidity for regular bar-and-joint frameworks in a \(d\)-dimensional Euclidean space, see [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 245, 279--289 (1978; Zbl 0392.05026)] and [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 68, 171--190 (1979; Zbl 0441.05046)], as well as to obtain upper bounds for the dimension of the space of trivial motions for a framework and establish the flexibility of small frameworks in general non-Euclidean normed spaces.