One brick at a time: a survey of inductive constructions in rigidity theory

Details One brick at a time: a survey of inductive constructions in rigidity theory One brick at a time: a survey of inductive constructions in rigidity theory

2012-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/1203.6623v1

Mathematics

Metric Geometry

25 pages, 11 figures

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We present a survey of results concerning the use of inductive constructions to study the rigidity of frameworks. By inductive constructions we mean simple graph moves which can be shown to preserve the rigidity of the corresponding framework. We describe a number of cases in which characterisations of rigidity were proved by inductive constructions. That is, by identifying recursive operations that preserved rigidity and proving that these operations were sufficient to generate all such frameworks. We also outline the use of inductive constructions in some recent areas of particularly active interest, namely symmetric and periodic frameworks, frameworks on surfaces, and body-bar frameworks. We summarize the key outstanding open problems related to inductions.

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