The same gas-pressure stellar homology estimates give and . With Kramers' opacity law , radiative diffusion givesConsequently the claimed exponent five additionally requires the approximate low-mass main-sequence mass-radius relation and fixed composition:The supplied opacity and pressure assumptions alone do not establish that mass-radius relation. For example, a homologous fixed-radius family obeys those scaling assumptions but gives , not . More generally gives . Very low-mass stars can be convective, where this radiative model ceases to apply.