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For ultrarelativistic particles with fixed magnet settings, and . Hence the half-trace is
Off-energy motion is stable when , separately in each transverse plane. Where , its first-order phase shift is
For equal opposite strengths,
Thus positive momentum error reduces the focusing and phase advance; negative error moves toward the overfocused unstable boundary. The unexpanded symmetric stability condition is , with , within the ultrarelativistic energy scaling. Its natural chromaticity per cell is . Away from the ultrarelativistic limit replace the displayed first-order energy error by . Linearizing at a stability boundary is singular and needs separate treatment.

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