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Bending an elastic, inextensible sheet of paper into a teardrop shape

I take an rectangular sheet of paper, of height $H$ and Young's Modulus $E$, and in the absence of gravity, I bend it into a "teardrop" shape so that the edges along the top and bottom touch only along a single line.

What analytic function describes this "teardrop" shape?