Compatibility of strains and the three-fold differentiability of the displacement field

The problem of the necessary class of smoothness of solutions to quasi-static problems of deformable solid mechanics in terms of displacements was discussed. It is shown that in order for the equations of compatibility of deformations to become identities when displacements are substituted in them, the existence of some third mixed derivatives of displacements is required. A counterexample for a linearly elastic compressible isotropic elastic medium was given. In this counterexample, the displacement field, being a doubly differentiable solution to the boundary value problem for the system of Lame equations in the entire domain, is not a solution to the displacement problem at all points in this domain.