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).