Solution

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Regulate the zero mode by a soft momentum and write the free modes as
The Wronskian normalization follows from the canonical commutator, while the power spectrum is . Inserting the creation part of on the ket and the annihilation part on the bra, their difference is precisely the Wronskian. For this gives, after taking and setting the irrelevant normalization ,
Equivalently, before removing the regulator, the right-hand side is the soft three-point function divided by .

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