One-loop shell mass renormalization in scalar quartic theory

ID: one-loop-shell-mass-renormalization-in-scalar-quartic-theory

For interaction , split into slow and fast Fourier modes, with a centered fast Gaussian measure. The first cumulant expansion term is by Wick theorem. The constant shifts the free energy, the quadratic term gives , and there is no gradient correction at this order. Rescaling gives and . The mass shift mixes thermal and quartic perturbations; the interacting critical tuning need not have zero bare mass.

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