Although Dyson and Niven get the credit, and - at the stellar level - fame; their geometries simply don't work. Niven had not read Maxwell, who in the prior century(!) proved that Saturn's rings were debris-fields. Colin McInnes is handling the Lagrange for spheres and rings.
I think we should return to Maxwell, to apply this to Birch rings around mere planets.
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