Solution

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Identifying with temperature, write near the nonzero critical fixed point. The derivative of the beta function there is
Thus the temperature-like perturbation has renormalization-group eigenvalue . Since the correlation-length critical exponent satisfies ,
The Gaussian fixed point is the stable ordered-phase fixed point for , rather than the finite-temperature transition. In exactly two dimensions the flow instead gives an essential, exponential correlation-length divergence, corresponding formally to rather than a finite power-law exponent.

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