Disconnected scalar three-point tadpole

ID: disconnected-scalar-three-point-tadpole

In a theory with interaction , the neutral correlator contains a connected three-leg contraction and, unless subtracted, the disconnected product of a free complex-field propagator with the induced one-point function of . At first order the latter is proportional to . Vacuum-bubble normalization alone does not remove it. Normal ordering, a vanishing-tadpole condition, or taking the connected correlator does.

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