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Relative positions and velocities measured from galaxy $A$ are $r_B-r_A$ and $v_B-v_A$. Spatial homogeneity says that the same position-to-relative-velocity rule applies from every galaxy. Thus $v(r_B-r_A)=v(r_B-r_O)-v(r_A-r_O)$. Taking $r_O=0$ and putting $r_B=x+y$, $r_A=y$ gives additivity $v(x+y)=v(x)+v(y)$. For a continuous physical velocity field, additivity implies rational homogeneity and, by continuity, real homogeneity. Thereforefor a position-independent matrix $H$. Regularity is necessary to exclude pathological discontinuous additive functions.

Decompose the given matrix as $H=(5D/t)I+(D/t)W$, whereIts symmetric part is isotropic: no cosmological shear, expansion scalar $\nabla \cdot v=15D/t$, and linear scale factor proportional to $t^{5D}$ for $t>0$. Its antisymmetric part is rigid rotation with angular velocityThe vorticity is $2\mathbf{\omega }$. Comoving separations obeyThus all distances grow by the same power, volumes grow as $t^{15D}$, and the pattern rotates about the fixed axis $(1,-2,1)$ through angle $\sqrt{6}D\log (t/t_0)$. Homogeneity alone permits this rotation; full cosmological isotropy would not.