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We have studied the evolution of an oblique rotator with both gravitational and magnetic radiation included. We find the most likely value for the present deceleration parameter n of the Crab pulsar to be in the range 3-3.5 if we want an eventual slowdown of the frequency to the 1-Hz range.
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Chau et al. (1970) studied this question.
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