{ "id": "1407.6815", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-07-25T08:53:38.000Z", "updated": "2015-02-17T10:28:59.000Z", "title": "Universality theorems for linkages in homogeneous surfaces", "authors": [ "Mickaƫl Kourganoff" ], "comment": "53 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1401.1050", "categories": [ "math.MG", "math.DG", "math.GT" ], "abstract": "A mechanical linkage is a mechanism made of rigid rods linked together by flexible joints, in which some vertices are fixed and others may move. The partial configuration space of a linkage is the set of all the possible positions of a subset of the vertices. We characterize the possible partial configuration spaces of linkages in the (Lorentz-)Minkowski plane, in the hyperbolic plane and in the sphere. We also give a proof of a differential universality theorem in the Minkowski plane and in the hyperbolic plane: for any compact manifold M, there is a linkage whose configuration space is diffeomorphic to the disjoint union of a finite number of copies of M. In the Minkowski plane, it is also true for any manifold M which is the interior of a compact manifold with boundary.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-07-25T08:53:38.000Z", "title": "Universality theorems for linkages in the hyperbolic plane", "abstract": "A mechanical linkage is a mechanism made of rigid rods linked together by flexible joints, in which some vertices are fixed and others may move. The partial configuration space of a linkage is the set of all the possible positions of a subset of the vertices. We characterize the possible partial configuration spaces of linkages in the hyperbolic plane. We also give a proof of a differential universality theorem in the hyperbolic plane: for any compact manifold M, there is a linkage which has a configuration space diffeomorphic to the disjoint union of a finite number of copies of M.", "comment": "13 pages", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2015-02-17T10:28:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "51M09", "14P05", "14P10", "57R99", "51F99", "53B30" ], "keywords": [ "hyperbolic plane", "partial configuration space", "configuration space diffeomorphic", "differential universality theorem", "compact manifold" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 53, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1407.6815K" } } }