Solution

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The leading mass correction is the one-vertex tadpole diagram: two legs of the quartic vertex are external and the remaining two form one fast loop. One contraction has a freely summed component index and contributes , while two exchange contractions have their index fixed by the external component. The result is proportional to .

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