Type I critical phenomena occur when a mass scale in the field equations becomes dynamically relevant. (This scale does not necessarily set the mass of the critical solution absolutely: There could be a family of critical solutions selected by the initial conditions.) Conversely, as the type II power law is scale-invariant, type II phenomena occur in situations where either the field equations do not contain a scale, or this scale is dynamically irrelevant. Many systems, such as the massive scalar field, show both type I and type II critical phenomena, in different regions of the space of initial data [34].
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