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<p>In astrophysics, <b>Dirichlet's ellipsoidal problem</b>, named after <a href="page.php?w=Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet">Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet</a>, asks under what conditions there can exist an <a href="page.php?w=ellipsoid">ellipsoid</a>al configuration at all times of a homogeneous rotating fluid mass in which the motion, in an <a href="page.php?w=inertial_frame">inertial frame</a>, is a linear function of the coordinates. Dirichlet's basic idea was to reduce <a href="page.php?w=Euler_equations_%28fluid_dynamics%29">Euler equations</a></p><p>
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