Solution

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Hyperscaling adds the physical assumption that the singular free energy associated with one correlation volume is of order :
At fixed scaled field , this predicts , whereas the given thermodynamic form has power . Hence
The product can be a finite dimensionless function of fixed ; it need not be constant. The homogeneity of alone is insufficient: the correlation-volume free-energy assumption supplies the connection. Above an upper critical dimension, a dangerously irrelevant coupling can invalidate this argument; at a marginal dimension logarithms may qualify pure powers.

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