Talk:Rigidity
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Apart from the differential geometric rigidity, there is also the rigidity as the antonym to the structural stability: an object cannot be deformed by a topological equivalence unless it is "the same" object from the, say, linear (or smooth, or analytic) point of view.
Besides, there is Mostow rigidity and several other meanings of the word...
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Rigidity. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Rigidity&oldid=26128
Rigidity. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Rigidity&oldid=26128