TR-2020-22

Extremal families of redundantly rigid graphs in three dimensions

Tibor Jordán, Christopher Poston, Ryan Roach



Abstract

A rigid graph $G$ is said to be $k$-vertex (resp. $k$-edge) rigid in $\R^d$ if it remains rigid after the removal of less than $k$ vertices (resp. edges). The definition of $k$-vertex (resp. $k$-edge) globally rigid graphs in $\R^d$ is similar. We study each of these four versions of redundant (global) rigidity and determine the smallest number of edges in a $k$-vertex (resp. $k$-edge) rigid (resp. globally rigid) graph on $n$ vertices in $\R^3$ for all positive integers $k$, except for four special cases, where we provide a close-to-tight bound.


Bibtex entry:

@techreport{egres-20-22,
AUTHOR = {Jord{\'a}n, Tibor and Poston, Christopher and Roach, Ryan},
TITLE = {Extremal families of redundantly rigid graphs in three dimensions},
NOTE= {{\tt egres.elte.hu}},
INSTITUTION = {Egerv{\'a}ry Research Group, Budapest},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {TR-2020-22}
}


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