Uniqueness in classical elastostatics (Q1821579)

It is shown that the displacement problem of homogeneous, isotropic, n- dimensional elastostatics \((n=2,3)\) in unbounded domains has at most one regular solutions in the classes of vector fields which behave at large distance as \(r^{-\xi}\) \((n=3)\) and \(\log^{\xi}r\) \((n=2)\), with \(r=| x-o|\) and \(\xi\in (0,1)\), provided the elasticities are positive definite and satisfy some inequalities closely linked to \(\xi\).