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Cauchy-Born Rule and the Stability of Crystalline Solids: Dynamic Problems

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We study continuum and atomistic models for the elastodynamics of crystalline solids at zero temperature. We establish sharp criterion for the regime of validity of the nonlinear elastic wave equations derived from the well-known Cauchy-Born rule.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and PACM, Princeton University, Princeton

    E Wei-nan*

  2. LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China

    Ming Ping-bing**

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*Supported in part by an NSF grant DMS 04-07866, with additional support from the project "Research Team on Complex Systems" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

**Supported by the National Basic Research Program (No.2005CB321704) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10571172).

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Wei-nan*, E., Ping-bing**, M. Cauchy-Born Rule and the Stability of Crystalline Solids: Dynamic Problems. Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, English Series 23, 529–550 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10255-007-0393

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