Configuration spaces of convex and embedded polygons in the plane

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9910-XMaRDI QIDQ464239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Don Shimamoto, Mary Wootters

Publication date 17 October 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1365

zbMATH Keywords

polygonsconfiguration spaceslinkages

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: This paper studies the configuration spaces of linkages whose underlying graph is a single cycle. Assume that the edge lengths are such that there are no configurations in which all the edges lie along a line. The main results are that, modulo translations and rotations, each component of the space of convex configurations is homeomorphic to a closed Euclidean ball and each component of the space of embedded configurations is homeomorphic to a Euclidean space. This represents an elaboration on the topological information that follows from the convexification theorem of Connelly, Demaine, and Rote.

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