Reply to the ‘Comment on “Spatial structure of states of self stress in jammed systems”’ by E. Lerner, Soft Matter, 2017, 13, DOI: 10.1039/c6sm01111j
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.