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A shearing-wave ansatz in a uniform inviscid isothermal shearing sheet removes background advection when the radial wavevector grows as $k_x(t)=k_x(0)+S{k}_{y}t$. The razor-thin disk Poisson kernel reduces the pressure-plus-gravity amplitude to $[c_s^2-2\pi G{\Sigma }_0/k]{\tilde{\Sigma }}^{\prime }/{\Sigma }_0$. Continuity couples it to $i{k}_x{v}_x+i{k}_y{v}_y$, while the two momentum equations have rotational couplings $-2\Omega v_y$ and $(2\Omega -S)v_x$. The linearized vortensity amplitude remains constant, because the barotropic pressure and gravitational forces have zero curl and the background vortensity is uniform.

Apply the shearing-wave ansatz to each disturbance. Acting on its phase givesThus a spatially uniform amplitude system exists whenFor a nonzero horizontal wavenumber $k=|\mathbf{k}|$, the razor-thin disk Poisson kernel follows from $({\partial }_z^2-k^2){\tilde{\Phi }}_d^{\prime }=4\pi G{\tilde{\Sigma }}^{\prime }\delta (z)$. The potential decays above and below the sheet as ${\tilde{\Phi }}_{d,m}^{\prime }{e}^{-k|z|}$. Integrating across the midplane gives the jump $-2k{\tilde{\Phi }}_{d,m}^{\prime }=4\pi G{\tilde{\Sigma }}^{\prime }$, henceSubstitute this potential and the phase evolution into the linearized equations. The barotropic shearing-wave gravitational amplitude system isThe self-gravity sign is attractive and opposes the pressure response. The uniform $k=0$ mass density shift requires its own gravitational reference and is not obtained by dividing by $k$.

For zero forcing, the given equation for $v_y$ isUse the shearing-wave ansatzThe explicit $x$ dependence cancels from the material derivative whenThe amplitude then obeys the time-dependent harmonic oscillator equationThis evolving wavevector is the characteristic signature of a shearing wave.

Applying ${\mathcal{D}}_0$ to the shearing-wave ansatz produces an extra phase termThe perturbation equations have spatially uniform amplitude coefficients only when this term vanishes. HenceFor $k_y\ne 0$, the radial wavenumber changes linearly. A leading disturbance with $k_x/k_y<0$ first opens until $k_x=0$, then becomes an increasingly tightly wound trailing disturbance with $k_x/k_y>0$. This is the geometric swing of a shearing wave.