The rigidity of spherical frameworks: swapping blocks and holes

DOI10.1137/090775701zbMATH Open1247.52011arXiv0911.0367OpenAlexW2013913423MaRDI QIDQ2902902FDOQ2902902

Authors: Elissa Ross, Walter Whiteley, Wendy Finbow 

Publication date: 22 August 2012

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

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.

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

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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)

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