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A four-dimensional Hooke's law can encompass linear elasticity and inertia

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arxiv gr-qc/9906094 v1 pith:SDLF7QDG submitted 1999-06-23 gr-qc

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The question is examined, whether the formally straightforward extension of Hooke's time-honoured stress-strain relation to the four dimensions of special and of general relativity can make physical sense. The four-dimensional Hooke's law is found able to account for the inertia of matter; in the flat space, slow motion approximation the field equations for the ``displacement'' four-vector field can encompass both linear elasticity and inertia. In this limit one just recovers the equations of motion of the classical theory of elasticity.

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