Abstract
Gluck has proven that triangulated 2-spheres are generically 3-rigid. Equivalently, planar graphs are generically 3-stress free. We show that already the K 5-minor freeness guarantees the stress freeness. More generally, we prove that every K r+2-minor free graph is generically r-stress free for 1≤ r ≤4. (This assertion is false for r ≥ 6.) Some further extensions are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 465-472 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Combinatorica |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Jul 2007 |