Sufficiency conjecture for isostatic frameworks with or symmetry
Sufficiency conjecture for isostatic frameworks with or symmetry
Let be the connectivity of a framework, with joints and bars, and let be a plane configuration generic with symmetry group . Write for the number of joints at the center, for the number of bars fixed by the half-turn, and for the number of bars fixed by a mirror . For any non-empty set of bars contacting only the joints in , write and . Sufficiency conjecture. If is realized with symmetry group or , then the following necessary conditions are also sufficient for to be isostatic:
for every non-empty set of bars , together with and for each mirror when , and and for each mirror when . This extends the sufficiency result already established for the plane symmetry groups , , and ; the remaining issue is whether these conditions suffice for the two groups and , beyond their necessity.
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Robert Connelly, Patrick Fowler, Simon Guest, Bernd Schulze and Walter Whiteley, “When is a symmetric pin-jointed framework isostatic?”, arXiv:0803.2325 (2008).
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