Infinitesimal rigidity and prestress stability for frameworks in normed spaces

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Main Author: Dewar, Sean
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contents A (bar-and-joint) framework is a set of points in a normed space with a set of fixed distance constraints between them. Determining whether a framework is locally rigid - i.e. whether every other suitably close framework with the same distance constraints is an isometric copy - is NP-hard when the normed space has dimension 2 or greater. We can reduce the complexity by instead considering derivatives of the constraints, which linearises the problem. By applying methods from non-smooth analysis, we shall strengthen previous sufficient conditions for framework rigidity that utilise first-order derivatives. We shall also introduce the notions of prestress stability and second-order rigidity to the topic of normed space rigidity, two weaker sufficient conditions for framework rigidity previously only considered for Euclidean spaces.
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spellingShingle Infinitesimal rigidity and prestress stability for frameworks in normed spaces
Dewar, Sean
Metric Geometry
52C25 (Primary) 52A21, 49J52 (Secondary)
A (bar-and-joint) framework is a set of points in a normed space with a set of fixed distance constraints between them. Determining whether a framework is locally rigid - i.e. whether every other suitably close framework with the same distance constraints is an isometric copy - is NP-hard when the normed space has dimension 2 or greater. We can reduce the complexity by instead considering derivatives of the constraints, which linearises the problem. By applying methods from non-smooth analysis, we shall strengthen previous sufficient conditions for framework rigidity that utilise first-order derivatives. We shall also introduce the notions of prestress stability and second-order rigidity to the topic of normed space rigidity, two weaker sufficient conditions for framework rigidity previously only considered for Euclidean spaces.
title Infinitesimal rigidity and prestress stability for frameworks in normed spaces
topic Metric Geometry
52C25 (Primary) 52A21, 49J52 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14468