Solution

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After and have been matched to the same measured coupling, the nonanalytic low-energy dependence from the light scalar loops is identical. For , a heavy loop has the local expansion
Its constant term is already absorbed into the matched quartic coupling, while the remaining terms are higher-dimensional local interactions suppressed by powers of . Dependence on the finite ultraviolet cutoff is similarly suppressed by powers of . This is heavy-field decoupling: low-energy scattering agrees up to corrections after all relevant parameters are matched. At energies comparable to , the two theories differ sharply because the second theory contains wrong-statistics heavy states.

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