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For a normal mode proportional to $e^{ikx-i\omega t}$, the linear equations giveFor $\omega \ne 0$, eliminate $U_y=-i\Omega U_x/(2\omega )$ and $\hat{\sigma }=k{\Sigma }_0{U}_x/\omega$. The density-wave dispersion relation in a non-self-gravitating disk isThe ${\Omega }^2$ term is the radial epicyclic frequency squared for Keplerian rotation: Coriolis force and background shear restore an orbital displacement. The $c_s^2{k}^2$ term is acoustic restoration by a pressure gradient. Long wavelengths are mainly epicyclic motion; short wavelengths are mainly acoustic waves. The given model contains no disk self-gravity term.

For completeness, the full three-variable determinant is proportional to $\omega ({\omega }^2-{\Omega }^2-c_s^2{k}^2)$. Its additional $\omega =0$ branch has $U_x=0$ and $2\Omega U_y=ik{c}_s^2\hat{\sigma }/{\Sigma }_0$. This is a stationary pressure/Coriolis balance, the zero-frequency balanced mode of an axisymmetric disk, rather than a propagating density wave. At $k=0$ it reduces to a uniform surface-density change. Dividing by $\omega$ is legitimate only for the wave branches just derived.