If stars are neither created nor lost and all follow quadratic accretion in a central Keplerian potential, conservation of number gives . Inverting the trajectory gives and its Jacobian determinant is . This proves the displayed mass-density-in-mass-space transformation. In a broad high-mass range with , whose inverse images remain in a narrow interval where varies little, the power law is . A strictly monochromatic initial population remains monochromatic. Finite initial support imposes a finite upper cutoff before the earliest formal blow-up, so the power law is an intermediate asymptotic subject to the accretion model's limits.
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