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The authors treat the two-frequency sine-Gordon model with the action \[ {\mathcal A}_{DSG}= \iint dt dx(\partial_\mu \phi \partial^\mu\phi/2+ \mu\cos\beta\phi+\lambda\cos(\alpha\phi+ \delta)), \] \(\alpha/\beta=1/2\). They study the theory considered as the perturbation of a ``\(c=1\)'' free massless boson by two cosine potential terms in two frameworks TCSA and FFPT. They give particular attention to a phase transition. In TCSA, the theory is established on a space-time cylinder with finite volume, and its UV-limit is a free ``\(\phi\)'' taking the values on a circle \(\phi\equiv \phi+2\pi R\), \(R=2/\beta\). They truncate the conformal Hilbert space, and obtain \(\langle\psi|H_{DSG}|\psi'\rangle\). In FFPT, they split \({\mathcal L}_{DSG_2}={\mathcal L}_0+\Delta{\mathcal L}\), and treat the term \(\Delta{\mathcal L}= \lambda\cos(\alpha\phi+ \delta)\) perturbatively in \(\lambda\). The two approaches give a consistent picture. The potential \(V(\phi)\) with \(\delta=\phi/2\) shows the typical behaviour which indicates a second-order phase transition in the Ising universality class. Finally, they establish the correspondence between the operators in the UV theory in TCSA and IR operators from Ising fixed point. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0966.00040].