A disk warp is a radial change of the orbital plane of successive disk annuli. In the small-tilt approximation, a complex tilt records its magnitude and azimuth. Pressure and internal torques communicate the tilt through bending waves of a Keplerian disk in the inviscid thin-disk regime. A flat tilted disk has constant even though its absolute orientation differs from the reference equatorial plane.
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