Note: A sufficient connectivity condition for generic rigidity in the plane

  • Authors:
  • Bill Jackson;Tibor Jordán

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, England, United Kingdom;Department of Operations Research, Eötvös University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C, 1117 Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A graph G=(V,E) is said to be 6-mixed-connected if G-U-D is connected for all sets U@?V and D@?E which satisfy 2|U|+|D|@?5. In this note we prove that 6-mixed-connected graphs are (redundantly globally) rigid in the plane. This improves on a previous result of Lovasz and Yemini.