Solution

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Let . Within terms already suppressed by , the leading equation of motion gives . Equality here means equivalence under a perturbative field redefinition, together with integration by parts, rather than a pointwise identity inside arbitrary off shell correlation functions. Hence
For the second relation, factor the difference as , which is explicitly a redundant operator. If
the reduced correction is
The first two coefficients shift the already present mass and quartic coupling constant. After these shifts,
This is the equation-of-motion reduction of scalar operators through ; terms of are outside that truncation. The lower-dimensional shifts should not be silently dropped when .

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