Solution

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Differentiate the homogeneous spin-field effective action:
At a stationary field, . Define the spin-summed density of states per lattice site by
Then the requested form is
The factor one half fixes the spin convention. With a single-spin density of states , the prefactor would instead be . In terms of site occupations, the same equation is . The Fermi distribution includes the chemical potential in its argument definition; it must not be subtracted a second time.

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