In this paper we consider a crack of arbitrary shape in a homogeneous elastic media in the absence of body forces, formulate variational Dirichlet and Neumann crack problems in a linear three-dimensional elasticity in Sobolev spaces and prove the existence and uniqueness of the corresponding (weak) solutions.
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