Pairing symmetries for Euclidean and spherical frameworks

DOI10.1007/S00454-020-00198-9MaRDI QIDQ2197695zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Katie Clinch, Anthony Nixon, Bernd Schulze, Walter Whiteley

Publication date 1 September 2020

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00578

zbMATH Keywords

bar-joint frameworkforced-symmetric rigidityincidental symmetrypoint-hyperplane frameworkspherical frameworksymmetry group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25) Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the effect of symmetry on the rigidity of bar-joint frameworks, spherical frameworks and point-hyperplane frameworks in $mathbb{R}^d$. In particular we show that, under forced or incidental symmetry, infinitesimal rigidity for spherical frameworks with vertices in $X$ on the equator and point-hyperplane frameworks with the vertices in $X$ representing hyperplanes are equivalent. We then show, again under forced or incidental symmetry, that infinitesimal rigidity properties under certain symmetry groups can be paired, or clustered, under inversion on the sphere so that infinitesimal rigidity with a given group is equivalent to infinitesimal rigidity under a paired group. The fundamental basic example is that mirror symmetric rigidity is equivalent to half-turn symmetric rigidity on the 2-sphere. With these results in hand we also deduce some combinatorial consequences for the rigidity of symmetric bar-joint and point-line frameworks.

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