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Helical motion of elastic spheres

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-08-02 v1

Abstract

We study the elastic deformations that appear due to tidal and centrifugal forces acting on an elastic sphere in helical motion in a spherically symmetric gravitational field, where gravity is considered to be given by either a Newtonian or a Schwarzschild background. We review an existence/uniqueness theorem based on the implicit function theorem for the nonrelativistic case and give explicit solutions to the linearized elastostatic equations in both cases.

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@article{arxiv.1108.0325,
  title  = {Helical motion of elastic spheres},
  author = {Stephan Broda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0325},
  year   = {2011}
}