Global rigidity of 2-dimensional direction-length frameworks with connected rigidity matroids

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Abstract: A two-dimensional direction-length framework (G,p) consists of a multigraph G=(V;D,L) whose edge set is formed of "direction" edges D and "length" edges L, and a realisation p of this graph in the plane. The edges of the framework represent geometric constraints: length edges fix the distance between their endvertices, whereas direction edges specify the gradient of the line through both endvertices. A direction-length framework (G,p) is globally rigid if every framework (G,q) which satisfies the same direction and length constraints as (G,p) can be obtained by translating (G,p) in the plane, and/or rotating (G,p) by 180circ. In this paper, we characterise global rigidity for generic direction-length frameworks whose associated rigidity matroid is connected, by showing that such frameworks are globally rigid if and only if every 2-separation of the underlying graph is direction-balanced.









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