Enumerating rigid sphere packings
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Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Computational aspects in algebraic geometry (14Q99) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mathematics education (97-02)
Abstract: Packing problems, which ask how to arrange a collection of objects in space to meet certain criteria, are important in a great many physical and biological systems, where geometrical arrangements at small scales control behaviour at larger ones. In many systems there is no single, optimal packing that dominates, but rather one must understand the entire set of possible packings. As a step in this direction we enumerate rigid clusters of identical hard spheres for , and clusters with the maximum number of contacts for . A rigid cluster is one that cannot be continuously deformed while maintaining all contacts. This is a nonlinear notion that arises naturally because such clusters are the metastable states when the spheres interact with a short-range potential, as is the case in many nano- or micro-scale systems. We expect these lists are nearly complete, except for a small number of highly singular clusters (linearly floppy but nonlinearly rigid.) The data contains some major geometrical surprises, such as the prevalence of hypostatic clusters: those with less than the contacts generically necessary for rigidity. We discuss these and several other unusual clusters, whose geometries may shed insight into physical mechanisms, pose mathematical and computational problems, or bring inspiration for designing new materials.
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