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A system of two relativistic equations is derived to describe the plane motion of two identical bodies with a linear interaction potential. The boundary-value problem for the minimum surface in the Minkowski world leads to this system. The nonrelativistic limit is considered.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 91–93, July, 1981.
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Shavokhina, N.S. Boundary-value problem for minimum surface in the three-dimensional Minkowski world. Soviet Physics Journal 24, 660–662 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00893904
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