The rigidity of spherical frameworks: swapping blocks and holes

DOI10.1137/090775701MaRDI QIDQ2902902zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elissa Ross, Walter Whiteley, Wendy Finbow

Publication date 22 August 2012

Published in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0367

zbMATH Keywords

dualityprojective geometryinfinitesimal rigiditygeneric rigidityspherical structuresstatic rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Projective analytic geometry (51N15) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25) Statics (70C20)

Abstract: A significant range of geometric structures whose rigidity is explored for both practical and theoretical purposes are formed by modifying generically isostatic triangulated spheres. In the block and hole structures (P, p), some edges are removed to make holes, and other edges are added to create rigid sub-structures called blocks. Previous work noted a combinatorial analogy in which blocks and holes played equivalent roles. In this paper, we connect stresses in such a structure (P, p) to first-order motions in a swapped structure (P', p), where holes become blocks and blocks become holes. When the initial structure is geometrically isostatic, this shows that the swapped structure is also geometrically isostatic, giving the strongest possible correspondence. We use a projective geometric presentation of the statics and the motions, to make the key underlying correspondences transparent.

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