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Rigidity of frameworks on spheres

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Publication date23/02/2024
Host publicationGraphs and Combinatorial Optimization: from Theory to Applications. CTW 2023
EditorsAndreas Brieden, Stefan Pickl, Markus Siegle
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer
Pages41-52
Number of pages12
ISBN (electronic)9783031468261
ISBN (print)9783031468254
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameAIRO Springer Series
PublisherSpringer
Volume13
ISSN (Print)2523-7047
ISSN (electronic)2523-7055

Abstract

Consider the rigidity of bar-joint frameworks in 3-dimensional space that are constrained to lie on a union of spheres. It is well known that rigidity on a single sphere is equivalent to Euclidean rigidity and this equivalence extends to the case where the spheres are concentric. We consider the case when the spheres have distinct centres and give coloured sparsity conditions, analogous to the Euclidean case, necessary for a generic framework on the union of two spheres with different centres to be rigid. We show that these conditions are not sufficient in general and add additional conditions which we prove are sufficient in a special case.