title: Reply to the 'Comment on "Spatial structure of states of self stress in jammed systems"' by E. Lerner, Soft Matter, 2017, 13, DOI.
abstract: Lerner's theoretical analysis neglects a normalizing factor which distinguishes states of self stress from the stress response to a unit dipolar force along a bond. This factor leads to different spatial profiles upon ensemble averaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA. dsussma@syr.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6164-9124
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Sussman
authors.affiliation: The James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hexner
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Carl P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Goodrich
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Liu