Reply to the 'Comment on "Spatial structure of states of self stress in jammed systems"' by E. Lerner, Soft Matter, 2017, 13, DOI.

Sussman, Daniel M; Hexner, Daniel; Goodrich, Carl P; Liu, Andrea J · Soft Matter · 2017

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Abstract

Lerner's theoretical analysis neglects a normalizing factor which distinguishes states of self stress from the stress response to a unit dipolar force along a bond. This factor leads to different spatial profiles upon ensemble averaging.