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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 320 3 c Solution by
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The density has the formInsert the ansatz into the Spherical Jeans equationThe radial-power derivative cancels the anisotropy term because , leaving . ThusTheir sum is independent of :Therefore the local kinetic-energy density and gravitational potential-energy density areand they satisfy the local virial relation of the hypervirial modelat every radius. This pointwise identity is not generic. The ordinary virial theorem constrains suitable global integrals, with boundary terms when the system is truncated, but does not normally impose a virial balance shell by shell.
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