Solution

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A momentum-shell renormalization group step has three parts:
1. Split the field into slow modes with and fast modes with , then integrate out to obtain a Wilsonian effective action for .
2. Rescale momenta by , equivalently coordinates by , so the reduced cutoff returns from to .
3. Rescale the field, at the Gaussian fixed point by , so the coefficient of retains its chosen normalization.
The resulting functional has the original cutoff but changed coefficients. Iterating the operation gives a renormalization-group flow on masses and interaction couplings.

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