Uniquely realisable graphs in analytic normed planes

Sean Dewar, John Hewetson, Anthony Nixon

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Abstract

A bar-joint framework $(G,p)$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{E}^d$ is globally rigid if it is the unique realisation, up to rigid congruences, of $G$ in $\mathbb{E}^d$ with the edge lengths of $(G,p)$. Building on key results of Hendrickson and Connelly, Jackson and Jord\'{a}n gave a complete combinatorial characterisation of when a generic framework is global rigidity in $\mathbb{E}^2$. We prove an analogous result when the Euclidean norm is replaced by any norm that is analytic on $\mathbb{R}^2 \setminus \{0\}$. More precisely, we show that a graph $G=(V,E)$ is globally rigid in a non-Euclidean analytic normed plane if and only if $G$ is 2-connected and $G-e$ contains 2 edge-disjoint spanning trees for all $e\in E$. The main technical tool is a recursive construction of 2-connected and redundantly rigid graphs in analytic normed planes. We also obtain some sufficient conditions for global rigidity as corollaries of our main result and prove that the analogous necessary conditions hold in $d$-dimensional analytic normed spaces.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherarXiv.org
Number of pages40
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jun 2022

Bibliographical note

40 pages, 16 figures

Keywords

  • math.CO
  • math.MG
  • 52C25, 05C10, 52A21, 53A35, 52B40

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