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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0724.00025.] A massive plasma torus spinning around a neutron star stationarily must be in equilibrium with the gravitational as well as with the electromagnetic forces. Gravitation forces the torus to rotate around the star according to Kepler's third law. Therefore, it is called a Keplerian disc. The balance of the electromagnetic forces leads to an overdetermined system of equations for the electric field outside the disc. This can be used to determine the shape of the disc whose boundary is considered as a free boundary. There are necessary conditions for the solvability of the equations. These give a first approximation for the position of the disc. In the limit of an infinitely slender disc explicit solutions are available. Solutions of the free boundary problem are characterized by a nonlinear singular integral equation. A linearized version of the latter is equivalent to the Neumann problem of potential theory. This is useful for numerical calculations with a Newton method but gives also the main tool to prove existence results via a theorem of implicit functions. Considering a related variational problem one obtains arguments in favour of stability of the solutions. Several numerically calculated solutions illustrate the situation, the solvability and the morphology of the solutions.