Prove the statement above, that if the potential energy of the system is quadratic, of the form

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Prove the statement above, that if the potential energy of the system is quadratic, of the form

then the elastic constant matrix Cijlm must be symmetric with respect to interchanging the first two indices with the last two indices.

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