On traces of d-stresses in the skeletons of lower dimensions of homology d-manifolds

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Authors: R. M. Erdahl, Konstantine Rybnikov, S. S. Ryshkov 

Abstract: We show how a $d$-stress on a piecewise-linear realization of an oriented (non-simplicial, in general) $d$-manifold in d naturally induces stresses of lower dimensions on this manifold, and discuss implications of this construction to the analysis of self-stresses in spatial frameworks. The constructed mappings are not linear, but polynomial. In 1860-70s J. C. Maxwell described an interesting relationship between self-stresses in planar frameworks and vertical projections of polyhedral 2-surfaces. We offer a partial analog of Maxwell correspondence for self-stresses in spatial frameworks and vertical projections of 3-dimensional surfaces based on our construction of polynomial mappings. Applying this theorem we derive a class of three-dimensional spider webs similar to the family of two-dimensional spider webs described by Maxwell. In addition, we conjecture an important property of our mappings which is supported by a heuristic count based on the lower bound theorem ($g_2(d+1)=dim:Stres{s}_{2}ge0$) for $d$-pseudomanifolds generically realized in $R^{d+1}$ (Fogelsanger).

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