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The analysis of Paper II is specialized to vacuum metrics appropriately for a discussion of their stability. And Carter's theorem, that asymptotically fiat axisymmetric vacuum metrics, external to black holes, cannot allow nontrivial axisymmetric neutral deformations, is deduced.
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Chandrasekhar et al. (1972) studied this question.
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