Gain-tightness characterization for rotational and reflectional cylinder symmetries

Let Y\mathcal{Y} denote the cylinder. Let SS be one of the groups Cmh\mathcal{C}_{mh}, Cmv\mathcal{C}_{mv} or S2m\mathcal{S}_{2m}, with the rotational axis equal to the cylinder axis. Let (G,p)(G,p) be an SS-generic framework in the corresponding symmetric realization space R(G,S,θ)Y\mathscr{R}^{\mathcal{Y}}_{(G,S,\theta)}, and let (G0,ψ)(G_0,\psi) be its quotient SS-gain graph. A gain graph is (2,2,1)r(2,2,1)^r-gain-tight when it is (2,2,1)r(2,2,1)^r-gain-sparse and has F=2V(F)1|F|=2|V(F)|-1 for its full edge set, with the bound F2V(F)2|F|\leq 2|V(F)|-2 for nonempty FF whose vertex-generated subgroup is C1\mathcal{C}_1 or Cm\mathcal{C}_{m'} for mmm'\leq m, and F2V(F)1|F|\leq 2|V(F)|-1 otherwise. The cylinder rotational-symmetry conjecture. The framework (G,p)(G,p) is SS-isostatic if and only if (G0,ψ)(G_0,\psi) is (2,2,1)r(2,2,1)^r-gain-tight. The cylinder summary records this as conjectural for the listed groups, so the characterization remains open in the source.

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Anthony Nixon and Bernd Schulze, “Symmetry-forced rigidity of frameworks on surfaces”, arXiv:1312.1480 (2015).

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