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astro-ph1999
Mathematical Vindications of the "Jeans Swindle"
Michael K. -H. Kiessling
The original Jeans dispersion relation and instability criterion are derived by a mathematically well-defined limiting procedure. The procedure highlights Jeans' physical reasoning…
math.AP1999
Surfaces with radially symmetric prescribed Gauss curvature
Sagun Chanillo, Michael K. -H. Kiessling
We study conformally flat surfaces with prescribed Gaussian curvature, described by solutions of the PDE: , with the Gauss curvature function at…