Generic symmetry-forced infinitesimal rigidity: translations and rotations

23 Mar 2020  ·  Daniel Irving Bernstein ·

We characterize the combinatorial types of symmetric frameworks in the plane that are minimally generically symmetry-forced infinitesimally rigid when the symmetry group consists of rotations and translations. Along the way, we use tropical geometry to show how a construction of Edmonds that associates a matroid to a submodular function can be used to give a description of the algebraic matroid of a Hadamard product of two linear spaces in terms of the matroids of each linear space. This leads to new, short, proofs of Laman's theorem, and a theorem of Jord{\'a}n, Kaszanitzky, and Tanigawa, and Malestein and Theran characterizing the minimally generically symmetry-forced rigid graphs in the plane when the symmetry group contains only rotations.

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Combinatorics Algebraic Geometry Metric Geometry 52C25, 05B35, 14T05