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Generic Rigidity with Forced Symmetry and Sparse Colored Graphs

  • Justin MalesteinEmail author
  • Louis Theran
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Abstract

We review some recent results in the generic rigidity theory of planar frameworks with forced symmetry, giving a uniform treatment to the topic. We also give new combinatorial characterizations of minimally rigid periodic frameworks with fixed-area fundamental domain and fixed-angle fundamental domain.

Keywords

Rigidity Matroid Colored graph Periodic framework Forced symmetry Sparse graphs 

Subject Classifications

52C25 52B40 
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Notes

Acknowledgements

We thank the Fields Institute for its hospitality during the Workshop on Rigidity and Symmetry, the workshop organizers for putting together the program, and the conference participants for many interesting discussions. LT is supported by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no 247029-SDModels. JM partially supported by NSF CDI-I grant DMR 0835586 and (for finial preparation) the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no 226135.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat RamThe Hebrew University of JerusalemJerusalemIsrael
  2. 2.Institut für MathematikFreie Universitüt BerlinBerlinGermany

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