Solution

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A momentum-shell renormalization group step has three parts:
1. Split into slow modes and fast modes , then integrate out using a cumulant expansion to obtain a Wilsonian effective action for .
2. Rescale momenta by , equivalently coordinates by , restoring the cutoff from to .
3. Rescale the field by at the Gaussian fixed point, restoring the normalized kinetic term.
The resulting functional has the original form and cutoff but new masses and couplings. Iteration produces a renormalization-group flow.

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