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T1 - A constructive characterisation of circuits in the simple (2,2)-sparsity matroid
AU - Nixon, Anthony
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, European Journal of Combinatorics 42, 2014, © ELSEVIER.
PY - 2014/11
Y1 - 2014/11
N2 - We provide a constructive characterisation of circuits in the simple (2,2)-sparsity matroid. A circuit is a simple graph G=(V,E) with |E|=2|V|−1 where the number of edges induced by any X⊊V is at most 2|X|−2. Insisting on simplicity results in the Henneberg 2 operation being adequate only when the graph is sufficiently connected. Thus we introduce 3 different join operations to complete the characterisation. Extensions are discussed to when the sparsity matroid is connected and this is applied to the theory of frameworks on surfaces, to provide a conjectured characterisation of when frameworks on an infinite circular cylinder are generically globally rigid.
AB - We provide a constructive characterisation of circuits in the simple (2,2)-sparsity matroid. A circuit is a simple graph G=(V,E) with |E|=2|V|−1 where the number of edges induced by any X⊊V is at most 2|X|−2. Insisting on simplicity results in the Henneberg 2 operation being adequate only when the graph is sufficiently connected. Thus we introduce 3 different join operations to complete the characterisation. Extensions are discussed to when the sparsity matroid is connected and this is applied to the theory of frameworks on surfaces, to provide a conjectured characterisation of when frameworks on an infinite circular cylinder are generically globally rigid.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejc.2014.05.009
DO - 10.1016/j.ejc.2014.05.009
M3 - Journal article
VL - 42
SP - 92
EP - 106
JO - European Journal of Combinatorics
JF - European Journal of Combinatorics
SN - 0195-6698
ER -