Solution

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Use the wave-function renormalization coefficient and anomalous dimension definition stipulated in this part, keeping their signs and normalization. Put . To the required order,
At fixed bare , the leading change of the dimensionless coupling is , because has mass dimension . Therefore the chain rule, applied before setting , gives
Thus
The vanishing engineering contribution multiplies a pole and leaves a finite answer. Dropping it at the start would incorrectly give zero. The numerical answer is conditional on the supplied two-loop coefficient. A convention defining the field anomalous dimension as instead gives for the same ; substituting that convention silently would answer a different question.

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