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Main Authors: Erdahl, Robert M., Rybnikov, Konstantine, Ryshkov, Sergeĭ S.
Format: Preprint
Published: 1999
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9902160
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author Erdahl, Robert M.
Rybnikov, Konstantine
Ryshkov, Sergeĭ S.
author_facet Erdahl, Robert M.
Rybnikov, Konstantine
Ryshkov, Sergeĭ S.
contents We show how a $d$-stress on a piecewise-linear realization of an oriented (non-simplicial, in general) $d$-manifold in \rd naturally induces stresses of lower dimensions on this manifold, and discuss implications of this construction to the analysis of self-stresses in spatial frameworks. The constructed mappings are not linear, but polynomial. In 1860-70s J. C. Maxwell described an interesting relationship between self-stresses in planar frameworks and vertical projections of polyhedral 2-surfaces. We offer a partial analog of Maxwell correspondence for self-stresses in spatial frameworks and vertical projections of 3-dimensional surfaces based on our construction of polynomial mappings. Applying this theorem we derive a class of three-dimensional spider webs similar to the family of two-dimensional spider webs described by Maxwell. In addition, we conjecture an important property of our mappings which is supported by a heuristic count based on the lower bound theorem ($g_2(d+1)=dim\:Stress_2 \ge 0$) for $d$-pseudomanifolds generically realized in ${\R}^{d+1}$ (Fogelsanger).
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spellingShingle On traces of $d$-stresses in the skeletons of lower dimensions of homology $d$-manifolds
Erdahl, Robert M.
Rybnikov, Konstantine
Ryshkov, Sergeĭ S.
Metric Geometry
We show how a $d$-stress on a piecewise-linear realization of an oriented (non-simplicial, in general) $d$-manifold in \rd naturally induces stresses of lower dimensions on this manifold, and discuss implications of this construction to the analysis of self-stresses in spatial frameworks. The constructed mappings are not linear, but polynomial. In 1860-70s J. C. Maxwell described an interesting relationship between self-stresses in planar frameworks and vertical projections of polyhedral 2-surfaces. We offer a partial analog of Maxwell correspondence for self-stresses in spatial frameworks and vertical projections of 3-dimensional surfaces based on our construction of polynomial mappings. Applying this theorem we derive a class of three-dimensional spider webs similar to the family of two-dimensional spider webs described by Maxwell. In addition, we conjecture an important property of our mappings which is supported by a heuristic count based on the lower bound theorem ($g_2(d+1)=dim\:Stress_2 \ge 0$) for $d$-pseudomanifolds generically realized in ${\R}^{d+1}$ (Fogelsanger).
title On traces of $d$-stresses in the skeletons of lower dimensions of homology $d$-manifolds
topic Metric Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9902160