Papaloizou–Pringle instability
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The Papaloizou-Pringle Instability (PPI) is a scientific discovery made in 1984 by theoretical physicist John Papaloizou and James E. Pringle which proposes that tori, or accretion disks, in anisotropic stellar systems with constant specific angular momentum are unstable to non-axisymmetric global modes.