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DISCRETE & COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY
Volume 54, Issue 3, Pages 586-609Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00454-015-9724-8
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Rigidity; Global rigidity; Stress matrix; Framework on a surface
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- School of Mathematics, University of Bristol
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In 2005, Bob Connelly showed that a generic framework in is globally rigid if it has a stress matrix of maximum possible rank, and that this sufficient condition for generic global rigidity is preserved by the 1-extension operation. His results gave a key step in the characterisation of generic global rigidity in the plane. We extend these results to frameworks on surfaces in . For a framework on a family of concentric cylinders, cones or ellipsoids, we show that there is a natural surface stress matrix arising from assigning edge and vertex weights to the framework, in equilibrium at each vertex. In the case of cylinders and ellipsoids, we show that having a maximum-rank stress matrix is sufficient to guarantee generic global rigidity on the surface. We then show that this sufficient condition for generic global rigidity is preserved under 1-extension and use this to make progress on the problem of characterising generic global rigidity on the cylinder.
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