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Consider an orientation-preserving classical radial deformation of an elastic solid on a connected spherical annulus. If its nonnegative energy is zero everywhere and the material is isotropic with strict Baker-Ericksen inequalities, every gradient is a natural state, so $r^{\prime }=r/R$. Thus $(r/R{)}^{\prime }=0$ and $y=vx$.

A separate rigidity argument applies when the zero wells are $SO(3)\cup {\bigcup }_{i=1}^{N}SO(3)U_i$, with finitely many positive definite symmetric $U_i$. The radial gradient $F$ is positive symmetric; if $F=Q{U}_i$, then $F^2=U_i^2$, so uniqueness of the positive square root gives $F=U_i$. The rotation well similarly gives $F=I$. Hence the continuous ratio $r(R)/R$ takes values in a finite set of eigenvalues and must be constant on the connected radial interval. Differentiating $r=vR$ finishes the proof. This version needs neither material isotropy nor Baker-Ericksen inequalities and does not require an assumed continuity of $r^{\prime }$ beyond the radial-map regularity used for the ratio.