Janusz Ginster Amit Acharya
to appear Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
We address a problem that extends a fundamental classical result of
continuum mechanics from the time of its inception, as well as answers a fundamental
question in the recent, modern nonlinear elastic theory of dislocations.
Interestingly, the implication of our result in the latter case is qualitatively di fferent
from its well-established analog in the linear elastic theory of dislocations.