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For $d<4$, $y_g=4-d>0$, so the quartic coupling is a relevant direction of a fixed point. Generic Ising-like systems therefore flow away from the Gaussian point toward the interacting Wilson-Fisher fixed point, which controls the Ising universality class below four dimensions.

For $d>4$, the quartic coupling has $y_g=4-d<0$, but setting it to zero removes the stabilizing term. It is a dangerously irrelevant coupling. At $t=0$, minimizing $g{\varphi }^4-B\varphi$ gives $\varphi \sim (B/g{)}^{1/3}$ and $\delta =3$. This is consistent with Gaussian scaling becauseFor $d<4$, $g$ flows to a nonzero Wilson-Fisher fixed point, so no dangerously irrelevant zero-coupling limit spoils the ordinary scaling relations.

At quadratic order, $\mu d\lambda /d\mu =-ϵ\lambda +3{\lambda }^2/(16{\pi }^2)$ for $ϵ>0$. Solving the linear equation for $1/\lambda$ gives the displayed expression. If $0<\lambda ({\mu }_0)<{\lambda }_{\ast }$, the ultraviolet limit is zero and the infrared limit is ${\lambda }_{\ast }$. Initial data above ${\lambda }_{\ast }$ reach a Landau pole at a finite ultraviolet scale. The interacting value is the Wilson-Fisher fixed point along the quartic coupling direction; the full scalar theory also has a thermal relevant direction at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point, so a critical infrared limit requires mass tuning.

The scalar Wilson-Fisher fixed point is attractive within its critical surface, but has a relevant thermal direction. With $r=m^2{\Lambda }^{-2}$, $\lambda =g{\Lambda }^{-ϵ}$, and $K_D={\Omega }_D/(2\pi {)}^D$, its one-loop equations are $\dot{r}=2r+K_D\lambda /[2(1+r)]$ and $\dot{\lambda }=ϵ\lambda -3K_D{\lambda }^2/[2(1+r{)}^2]$. Their stability matrix at $r_{\ast }=-ϵ/6+O({ϵ}^2)$ and ${\lambda }_{\ast }=16{\pi }^2ϵ/3+O({ϵ}^2)$ has the displayed eigenvalues. Thus an unrestricted claim of infrared attraction is false: the bare mass must be tuned to the critical surface.