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The defining property of Born rigidity is locally constant distance in the co-moving frame for all points of the body in question. It is a very restrictive sense of rigidity, for example it is impossible to put a disk into rotation while maintaining its Born rigidity. Several weaker substitutes have been proposed as rigidity conditions. Note that Born rigidity is a constraint on the motion of an extended body, achieved by careful application of forces to different parts of the body. A body rigid in itself would violate special relativity, as its Velocity Of Sound would be infinite. LITERATURE
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