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by agrona 4312 days ago
From my reading of it:

>The size of the highest mountain of order ∼ εR can be roughly estimated from the inequality (292).

>P, P˙ and I are, respectively, the pulsar’s period, period derivative and moment of inertia [in inequality (292)].

Those terms are all just multiplied together in the inequality, so changes in any of them could affect epsilon (the "dimensionless parameter characterizing deformations of the star")