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Combinatorial Rigidity

By Brigitte Servatius , and Herman Servatius Jack Graver

Book information

Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Year
1993
ISBN
0821838016, 9780821838013
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2579922 bytes)
Series
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Pages
188\188
DPI
600
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-01-17 20:26:18

Description

This book presents rigidity theory in a historical context. The combinatorial aspects of rigidity are isolated and framed in terms of a special class of matroids, which are a natural generalization of the connectivity matroid of a graph. This book includes an introduction to matroid theory and an extensive study of planar rigidity. The final chapter is devoted to higher-dimensional rigidity, highlighting the main open questions. Also included is an extensive annotated bibliography with over 150 entries. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in graph theory and combinatorics or in fields which apply the structural aspects of these subjects in architecture and engineering. Accessible to those who have had an introduction to graph theory at the senior or graduate level, this book is suitable for a graduate course in graph theory.

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