Title
On The Existence Of Paradoxical Motions Of Generically Rigid Graphs On The Sphere
Abstract
We interpret realizations of a graph on the sphere up to rotations as elements of a moduli space of curves of genus zero. We focus on those graphs that admit an assignment of edge lengths on the sphere resulting in a flexible object. Our interpretation of realizations allows us to provide a combinatorial characterization of these graphs in terms of the existence of particular colorings of the edges. Moreover, we determine necessary relations for flexibility between the spherical lengths of the edges. We conclude by classifying all possible motions on the sphere of the complete bipartite graph with 3+3 vertices where no two vertices coincide or are antipodal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1137/19M1289467
SIAM JOURNAL ON DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
graph, sphere, Dixon, flexibility, moduli space
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0895-4801
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matteo Gallet1145.19
Georg Grasegger2256.98
Jan Legerský322.07
Josef Schicho4217.70