Sufficiency conjecture for isostatic frameworks with C2vC_{2v} or C3vC_{3v} symmetry

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Let G={J,B}G=\{J,B\} be the connectivity of a framework, with j=Jj=|J| joints and b=Bb=|B| bars, and let pp be a plane configuration generic with symmetry group G{\cal G}. Write jcj_c for the number of joints at the center, b2b_2 for the number of bars fixed by the half-turn, and bσb_{\sigma} for the number of bars fixed by a mirror σ\sigma. For any non-empty set of bars BB^{*} contacting only the joints in JJ^{*}, write b=Bb^{*}=|B^{*}| and j=Jj^{*}=|J^{*}|. Sufficiency conjecture. If G(p)G(p) is realized with symmetry group G=C2v{\cal G}=C_{2v} or G=C3v{\cal G}=C_{3v}, then the following necessary conditions are also sufficient for G(p)G(p) to be isostatic:

b=2j3,b=2j-3, b2j3b^{*}\leq 2j^{*}-3

for every non-empty set of bars BB^{*}, together with b2=1b_2=1 and bσ=1b_{\sigma}=1 for each mirror when G=C2v{\cal G}=C_{2v}, and jc=0j_c=0 and bσ=1b_{\sigma}=1 for each mirror when G=C3v{\cal G}=C_{3v}. This extends the sufficiency result already established for the plane symmetry groups CsC_s, C2C_2, and C3C_3; the remaining issue is whether these conditions suffice for the two groups C2vC_{2v} and C3vC_{3v}, 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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