Graded Sparse Graphs and Matroids

نویسندگان

  • Audrey Lee-St. John
  • Ileana Streinu
  • Louis Theran
چکیده

Sparse graphs and their associated matroids play an important role in rigidity theory, where they capture the combinatorics of some families of generic minimally rigid structures. We define a new family called graded sparse graphs, arising from generically pinned bar-and-joint frameworks, and prove that they also form matroids. We also address several algorithmic problems on graded sparse graphs: Decision, Spanning, Extraction, Components, Optimization, and Extension. We sketch variations on pebble game algorithms to solve them.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. UCS

دوره 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007