A -dimensional
framework is a pair
where
is a graph with vertex set
and edge set
and
is a map that assigns a point in
to each vertex of
. The length of an edge
in
is the Euclidean distance between
and
. Call
a realization of
in
. The framework is said to be generic if the set of the coordinates
of its points is algebraically independent over
, and is said to be globally rigid if every other realization
of
in
in which corresponding edges have the same length is congruent to
, i.e., the graph
and its edge lengths in
uniquely determine the pairwise distances of all vertices
in
.
After defining the above terminology, is generically globally rigid in
if every (equivalently, if some) generic realization of
in
is globally rigid (Garamvölgyi et al. 2021).
If
is globally rigid in
on
vertices, then
is fully reconstructible
in
(Garamvölgyi et al. 2021).