On the moduli spaces of multipolygonal linkages in the plane

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2006.04.003zbMATH Open1106.55007arXivmath/0307001OpenAlexW1979146010MaRDI QIDQ857043FDOQ857043

Michael Holcomb

Publication date: 14 December 2006

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The geometric, topological, and symplectic properties of moduli spaces (spaces of configurations modulo rotations and translations) of polygonal linkages have been studied by Kapovich, Millson, and Kamiyama, et. al. One can form a polygonal linkage by taking two free linkages and identifying initial and terminal vertices. This can be generalized so that one takes three free linkages and identifies initial and terminal vertices. Then one obtains a linkage which contains multiple polygons, any two of which have shared edges. The geometric and topological properties of moduli spaces of these multipolygonal linkages are studied. These spaces turn out to be compact algebraic varieties. Some conditions under which these spaces are smooth manifolds, cross products or disjoint unions of moduli spaces of polygonal linkages, or connected, are determined. In addition, dimensions in the smooth manifold cases and some Euler characteristics are computed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0307001

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic varietymoduli spacepolygonfree linkagemultipolygonal linkage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (05C99) Discrete geometry (52C99) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Real algebraic and real-analytic geometry (14P99)

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