What Is... Seminar

Robert ConnellyCornell University
What is a universally rigid framework?

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 5:30pm
Malott 207

If a finite collection of points in Euclidean space, where some of the pairs of those points have upper and lower bounds on their distances, is rigid in all higher dimension Euclidean spaces, there is always a certificate involving a sequence of nested stress energies that prove this rigidity, no exceptions.