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Four axioms are assumed which, essentially, state the existence of a frequency function, a qualitative law of gravitation, the conservation of mass (or probalility), Newton's law of motion and the « local » homogeneity of the Universe(§ 2). Theorems I and II yield a complete survey over all the universes which satisfy these axioms and an additional regularity hypothesis(§ 3). Some kinematical and thermodynamical features of these universes are discussed in§ 4.
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Kurth, R. Axiomatics of Newtonian cosmology. Annali di Matematica 68, 31–44 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02411020
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