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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 344 1 d Solution by
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Choose an even positive . Each independent complex Fourier mode of the real field has density , soThe quadratic part therefore has expectation . For the quartic part, apply Isserlis theorem to its four jointly centered Gaussian random variables, or to their real and imaginary components. Pairing the two differentiated fields together imposes , and its contribution isEach of the two other pairings instead gives , because the summand is odd under . Thus only the displayed contribution remains. Each full sum is twice its positive-wavevector sum for a real field; putting and gives .
Substitute these expectations, and into the Feynman-Bogoliubov inequality:The zero mode is absent by the composition constraint. The counting uses one representative of every nonzero pair, so no extra factor of two is assigned to an independent complex amplitude.
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