Solution

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Write . Allow a general bare coefficient temporarily, so the starting equation is . Substitute and apply the product and chain rules:
Multiplying by identifies
Thus the renormalization-group beta function transforms by the chain rule under a coupling reparametrization, while the field coefficient also records the scale dependence of the finite or divergent field normalization. For the actual bare parametrization here, substitute and .

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