 Left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor (source code)

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= Left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor
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The left Cauchy-Green tensor measures stretch on the <current configuration>. It is a <positive-definite symmetric matrix> for an invertible <deformation gradient>, with <eigenvalues> equal to the squares of the <principal stretches>.

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