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We study resonances (scattering poles) associated to the elasticity operator in the exterior of an arbitrary obstacle inR 3 with Neumann boundary conditions. We prove that there exists a sequence of resonances tending rapidly to the real axis.
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Stefanov, P., Vodev, G. Neumann resonances in linear elasticity for an arbitrary body. Commun.Math. Phys. 176, 645–659 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02099253
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02099253