Apply the shearing-wave ansatz to each disturbance. Acting on its phase gives
Thus a spatially uniform amplitude system exists when
For a nonzero horizontal wavenumber , the razor-thin disk Poisson kernel follows from . The potential decays above and below the sheet as . Integrating across the midplane gives the jump , hence
Substitute this potential and the phase evolution into the linearized equations. The barotropic shearing-wave gravitational amplitude system is
The self-gravity sign is attractive and opposes the pressure response. The uniform mass density shift requires its own gravitational reference and is not obtained by dividing by .