Minimal counterexamples to Hendrickson’s conjecture on globally rigid graphs

Abstract

In this paper we consider the class of graphs which are redundantly $d$-rigid and $(d+1)$-connected but not globally $d$-rigid, where $d$ is the dimension. This class arises from counterexamples to a conjecture by Bruce Hendrickson. It seems that there are relatively few graphs in this class for a given number of vertices. Using computations we show that $K_{5,5}$ is indeed the smallest counterexample to the conjecture.