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For this we analyse an underlying transport equation for the one-point probability density function, subject to zero-scalar constraint. We account for the presence of non-zero viscosity and large-scale friction. It is shown analytically, that zero-scalar characteristics of this equation are invariant under conformal transformations in the presence of large-scale friction. However, the non-zero molecular diffusivity breaks the conformal group (CG). This connects our study with previous observations where CG invariance of zero-vorticity isolines of the 2D Navier\u2013Stokes equation was analysed numerically and confirmed only for large scales in the inverse energy cascade. 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