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=See Also=

* [[Appendix/Ramblings/LedouxVariationalPrinciple#Ledoux.27s_Variational_Principle_.28Supporting_Derivations.29|Derivations that support this chapter's discussion of the Ledoux Variational Principle]]
* [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1967MNRAS.136..293L/abstract D. Lynden-Bell &amp; J. P. Ostriker (1967)], MNRAS, 136, 293:  ''On the stability of differentially rotating bodies''
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<font color="green">A variational principle of great power is derived.  It is naturally adapted for computers, and may be used to determine the stability of any fluid flow including those in differentially-rotating, self-gravitating stars and galaxies.  The method also provides a powerful theoretical tool for studying general properties of eigenfunctions, and the relationships between secular and ordinary stability.  In particular we prove the anti-sprial theorem indicating that no stable (or steady( mode can have a spiral structure</font>.
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* [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJS...24..319S/abstract B. F. Schutz, Jr. (1972)], ApJSuppl., 24, 319:  ''Linear Pulsations and Stability of Differentially Rotating Stellar Models. I. Newtonian Analysis''
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<font color="green">A systematic method is presented for deriving the Lagrangian governing the evolution of small perturbations of arbitrary flows of a self-gravitating perfect fluid. The method is applied to a differentially rotating stellar model; the result is a Lagrangian equivalent to that of [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1967MNRAS.136..293L/abstract D. Lynden-Bell &amp; J. P. Ostriker (1967)]. A sufficient condition for stability of rotating stars, derived from this Lagrangian, is simplified greatly by using as trial functions not the three components of the Lagrangian displacement vector, but three scalar functions &hellip; This change of variables saves one from integrating twice over the star to find the effect of the perturbed gravitational field.

&hellip; we examine the special cases of (i) axially symmetric perturbations of a rotating star (as treated by [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968ApJ...152..267C/abstract S. Chandrasekhar &amp; N. R. Lebovitz 1968]); and (ii) perturbations of a nonrotating star (as treated by [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1964ApJ...140.1517C/abstract Chandrasekhar and Lebovitz 1964)].  We find that the stability criteria for those cases can also be simplified &hellip;</font>
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