The graph characterization of generic minimal rigidity on concentric cones and tori

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Let M{\mathcal{M}} be a cone, a torus, a union of concentric cones or a union of concentric tori, and let pp be a generic placement. A graph GG is generically minimally rigid on M{\mathcal{M}} when the framework (G,p)(G,p) has generic minimal rigidity on M{\mathcal{M}}. The graph GG is (2,1)(2,1)-tight when it satisfies the corresponding (2,1)(2,1)-tightness condition.

Graph characterization conjecture. Then (G,p)(G,p) is generically minimally rigid on M{\mathcal{M}} if and only if G=K2G=K_{2}, K3K_3, K4K_4, or GG is (2,1)(2,1)-tight.

This conjecture would characterize generic minimal rigidity for frameworks on cones, tori, and unions of concentric cones or tori. The source presents it as further work expected to follow from the preceding inductive construction theorem; its resolution is not supplied here.

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Anthony Nixon and John Owen, “An Inductive Construction of (2,1)-tight Graphs”, arXiv:1103.2967 (2012).

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