Solution
ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2017/iii/paper-304/3/i/solution
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 304 3 i Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For a connected Feynman diagram with cubic vertices with four external legs and one loop, and give . In a one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagram, every internal edge lies on the single cycle. Each of the four cubic vertices therefore has two internal and one external leg, giving a box Feynman diagram. With labelled external momenta there are three inequivalent cyclic orderings, modulo rotation and reversal, represented by , and :
The three labelled cubic-scalar box diagrams
. The three inequivalent external-leg orderings of a box Feynman diagram in a six-dimensional cubic scalar field theory. Each square contains four internal propagators and four cubic vertices. Details.Take all momenta incoming with . The Feynman rules for the Euclidean action give a propagator and a cubic insertion . For order , the amputated connected insertion iswhere is the high-mode projector for a strict Wilsonian effective action. Each labelled box has Feynman-diagram symmetry factor one. A common fixed-loop-cutoff convention instead restricts only the chosen integration to the shell; both prescriptions give the same zero-external-momentum value. The effective-action vertex has the opposite sign to this connected insertion. Thus
New to topics? Read the docs here!
