Squared Distance Function on the Configuration Space of a planar Spider with Applications to Hooke Energy and Voronoi Distance

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Squared Distance Function on the Configuration Space of a planar Spider with Applications to Hooke Energy and Voronoi Distance
المؤلفون: Denkowski, Maciej, Panina, Gaiane, Siersma, Dirk
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Geometric Topology, 58K05, 70B15
الوصف: Spider mechanisms are the simplest examples of arachnoid mechanisms, they are one step more complicated than polygonal linkages. Their configuration spaces have been studied intensively, but are yet not completely understood. In the paper we study them using the Morse theory of the squared distance function from the "body" of the spider to some fixed point in the plane. Generically, it is a Morse-Bott function. We list its critical manifolds, describe them as products of polygon spaces, and derive a formula for their Morse-Bott indices. We apply the obtained results to Hooke energy and Voronoi distance.
Comment: 21 pages; 8 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15121
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.15121
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv