Frameworks with forced symmetry I: reflections and rotations
Authors: | Justin Malestein and Louis Theran |
Journal: | Discrete & Computational Geometry, 2015. |
Full text: | arXiv • DOI |
We give a combinatorial characterization of generic frameworks that are minimally rigid under the additional constraint of maintaining symmetry with respect to a finite order rotation or a reflection. To establish these results we develop a new technique for deriving linear representations of sparsity matroids on colored graphs and extend the direction network method of proving rigidity characterizations to handle reflections.